Craggy Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Craggy 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 Desolation Island, off Livingston Island, was known to nineteenth-century sealers who frequented Blythe Bay (q.v.) from 1820; roughly charted as Fildes Rocks (Fildes, 1821b, chart [1]); recharted by DI in 1935 and named descriptively Craggy Islet (Nelson and others, chart, 1935b; BA chart 1774, 9.vii.1948; APC, 1955, p.8). Islote Escarpado [translation of English name] (Argentina. MM chart ALFA, 1954; Pierrou, 1970, p.344; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.116). Craggy Island (APC, 1959a, p.5; BA, 1961, p.236; chart 1774, 14.ix.1962).
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