Cornwallis Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Cornwallis 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:
rising to 470m above sea level ENE of Elephant Island, was roughly charted by Bransfield in 1820 and named probably after Adm. Sir William Cornwallis, RN (1744-1819), Commander-in-Chief, Channel Fleet, 1801-06 (Bransfield, chart, [1820b]; Baird, 1821, p.233; BA chart [no number], 1822; 3205, 23.ix.1949; APC, 1955, p.7; DOS 610 sheet W 61 54 (Ext.), 1-GSGS 1972). Cornwallis's Island (Powell, chart, 1822a). Cornwallis's Isle (Powell, 1822b, p.7). Île Cornwallis (Eyriès and Malte-Brun, 1823, map facing p.237). Cornowalis [sic] Isle (Powell, 1824a, p.100). Cornwallis Insel (Weddell, 1827, third end map). Ostrov Mikhaylova [=Michael's island] (Bellingshausen, 1831a, Sheet 62). Île Cornwalis [sic] (d'Urville, 1838, map following p.1170). Isla Cornwallis (Riso Patron S., 1908, end map; Pierrou, 1970, p.268; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.85). Cornwallis Ö (HA chart, 1928). The island was recharted by DI in 1933-35. Mikhailov Island (Debenham, 1945, p.434). Michailoff's Island, as rejected name (USBGN, 1947, p.149). Mikhaylova (Bellingshausen, 1949, map facing p.336). Ostrov Mikhaylova (Kornuels) (Soviet Union. BSE, 1950, map following p.484). Wyspa Michaj owa (Machowski, 1953, map p.90). The island was photographed from the air by FIDASE in 1957. Cornwallis Eiland (Knapp, 1958, p.571). Isla Corwallis [sic] (Argentina. IGM map 3737, 1958). Ostrov Mikhaylova (Kornuollis) (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). Ostrov Michajlova (Cornwallis Island) (Soviet Union. GUGK map 221, 1973). Isla Connwallis [sic] as rejected form (Chile. IHA, 1974, p. 85). Cornwallis (Furse, 1979, p. 240).
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