Eadie Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Eadie 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:
between Aspland Island and O'Brien Island, South Shetland Islands, was roughly charted in February-March 1820 by Bransfield, who called the three islands O'Briens Islands (q.v.); further charted in February 1821 by RAE; shown as part of Aspland Island and called descriptively Sugarloaf Peninsula (BA chart 3205, 25.iii.1937); recharted by DI in January 1937 and named Eadie Island after the Dockyard Manager of the Melbourne Harbour Trust, Williamstown, Australia, who assisted DI (Hill, 1937; BA chart 3205, 2.ix.1938; APC, 1955, p.9; DOS 610 sheet W 61 54 (Ext.), 1-GSGS 1972). Isla Eadie (Chile. DNH chart L, 1947; Pierrou, 1970, p.333; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.111). Ostrov Edi (Aleyner, 1955, p.85). The island was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57, and visited by JSEEIG in January 1977, when the summit was climbed. Eadie (Furse, 1979, p.39).
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