Eillium Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Eillium 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:
NW of Mackenzie Peninsula, Laurie Island, was probably sighted by Powell and Palmer in 1821; charted by SNAE, 27 November 1903, and named Eillium Isle after Eillium Bruce (b. 1902), son of W.S. Bruce, Commander of SNAE (Bruce Islands, q.v.) (Bruce and others, chart, [1903c]; Brown and others, 1906, p.137). Eillium Island (Bruce, 1905b, map facing p.322; BA chart 1775, 1938; APC, 1955, p.9). Isla Eillium (Argentina. MM chart 31, 1931; Pierrou, 1970, p.336). Eillum [sic] Island (BA chart 1775, 1935). Isla Eillum [sic], Isla Eilun [sic] (Argentina. CNA, 1947, maps p.45, 54). Isla Eillun [sic] (Moneta, 1951, end map [2]). Islote Eillium (Argentina. MM, 1957a, p.27).
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