Name details

Cheesman Island

Cheesman Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Cheesman Island  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 108176

Feature type: Island

Origin

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:

Narrative

off N coast of Charcot Island, was photographed from the air and roughly mapped by Wilkins on 29 December 1929; photographed again from the air on USN Operation "Highjump", 1946-47; following map compilation from air photographs by FIDS in 1959, named after Flight-Lieut. Silas Alward Cheesman, RCAF (1900-58), of St John, NB, and Thunder Bay, Ont., Canadian pilot on Wilkins' 1929 flight and on Wilkins' 1937-38 air expedition over the Beaufort Sea in search of six missing Soviet airmen ([in 69 31'S 74 58'W] APC, 1961, p.2; USHO chart 6638, 1962; Searle, 1963, end map; [co-ordinates corrected from USLANDSAT imagery of February 1975] APC, 1977, p.8). Ostrov Chisman (Soviet Union. AA, 1966, Pl. 24).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
69° 44' 00.0" S
-69.73333°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
75° 05' 00.0" W
-75.08333°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
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Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
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Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Unknown
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
2-Mar-1961

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