Cobalescou Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Cobalescou 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:
E of Two Hummock Island, Gerlache Strait, was charted by BeAE on 27 January 1898 and named Ile Cobalescou by Gerlache. The name is probably a toponym for Cobalcescu, after Professor Grigore Cobalcescu (1831-1892), First Professor of Geology, University of Iasi, Romania. Ile Cobalescou (Lecointe, map, 1899; Gerlache, 1900b). Cabalescou [sic] Island (Cook, 1900, map p.xx). Ile Cobalescu [sic] (Lecointe, 1900a, map facing p.132). Cobalescou Islet (USHO, 1943, p.113; APC, 1958, p.4). Islote Cobalescou (Argentina. MM chart 106, 1949; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.79). Isla Cobalescu [sic] (Argentina. MM chart OO, 1954). The island was resurveyed by FIDS from Norsel in April 1955 and photographed from the air by FIDASE in 1956. Isla Cobalescou (Argentina. MM, 1956, p.83; Pierrou, 1970, p.83). Cobalescou Island (APC, 1959a, p.5; BA chart 3560,7.iv.1961). Jim's Island (Bancroft, 1959, p.103).
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