Bruce Islands (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Bruce Islands (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Island
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
NW of Mackenzie Peninsula, Laurie Island, were roughly charted by Sørlle in 1912-13 and called Binnie Öyane after Edward Beveridge Binnie, second British resident Stipendiary Magistrate, South Georgia, 1915-26 (Sørlle, chart, [1930]); further charted from the corvette [corbeta] Uruguay (Tte Jorge Games) of the Argentine Navy in March 1919, and called Islas Corbeta (Argentina. MM chart 31, 1930); recharted by DI in 1933 and, to mark the hydrographic work of SNAE, named Bruce Islands after Dr William Speirs Bruce (1867-1921), Scottish polar explorer and naturalist of Edinburgh; member of DWE and Leader of SNAE and of expeditions to Svalbard between 1906 and 1920 (Nelson, 1933, p.25; BA chart 1775, 17.viii.1934; APC, 1955, p.6). Isla [sic] Bruce (Argentina. MM, 1945, p.277). Islas Bruce (Moneta, 1951, end map [1]; Pierrou, 1970, p.219). Islotes Corbeta (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.188; Pierrou, 1970, p.266).
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