Diomedea Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Diomedea 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:
in Ardley Cove, Maxwell Bay, King George Island, was charted by DI in 1935; called by SAE Ostrov Al'batros (Grikurov and Polyakov, 1968, map p.18) or Albatross Island (Grikurov and Polyakov, 1971, map p.190); named Diomedea Island after the generic name of several species of albatross (APC, 1980, p.3). Isla Torta, so called descriptively by AAE, torta being a round cake (Argentina. MD, 1978, letter T). Ilha Albatross (Brazil. PenĂnsula Fildes map, 1984 ) Diomedea Island (Admiralty chart 1774, 8.vi.1990)
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