Darwin Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Darwin 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:
the largest of the Danger Islands (q.v.), SE of Joinville Island, was roughly charted by Ross, 29 December 1842, and named after Charles Robert Darwin (1809-82), English naturalist; author of The origin of species (London, 1859) (Ross, 1847a, p.326; Petermann, map, 1867; APC, 1959a, p.5; BAS 250 sheet SP 21-22/14 (Ext.), 1-DOS 1973). Darwin-Eiland (Ross, 1847b, p.390). Darwin Islands (USHO chart 1132, 1894). Darwin Insel (Friederichsen, 1895, Tafel 7 facing p.304). Darwin Islet (BA chart 3205, 1.vi.1901; APC, 1955, p.8). Île Darwin (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904c, map p.232-33). Darwin Öarna (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904a, Del. 1, end map). Isla Darwin (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904-05, Tomo 1, end map). Darwin Inseln (Nordenskjöld, 1917, map facing p.68). Darwin Ö (HA chart, 1928). Darwinöene (Aagaard, 1930, end map). Islote Darwin (Chile. DNH chart L, 1947; Pierrou, 1970, p.295; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.93). The island was surveyed by FIDS from "Hope Bay", 1953-54 and 1958-61.
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