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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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:
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).
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