Name details

Dart Island

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

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

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 108429

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

in Fildes Strait between King George Island and Nelson Island, was charted by DI in 1934-35 when the name 70 Islets was applied to this island and the two islands to E and S, because two of them were reported to be "70ft high" (Nelson and others, chart, 1935g); following air photography by FIDASE, 1956-57, and in association with the names of nineteenth-century sealers in this area, named after the British sealing ship Dart (Capt. Thomas Duell) from London, which visited the South Shetland Islands in 1822 (APC, 1962, p.10; DOS 610 sheet W 62 58, 1968). Ilha Dart (Brazil. Península Fildes map, 1984 )

Named For

Location

Latitude:
62° 13' 55.2" S
-62.23200°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
59° 00' 43.3" W
-59.01203°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

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

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
31-Aug-1962

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