Etna Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Etna 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:
rising 53m above sea level N of Fitzroy Point, Joinville Island, was roughly charted by Ross, 28 December 1842, and named Ætna Island because of its resemblance to the Italian volcano (Ross, 1847a, p.325; BA chart 1238, x.1893). Aetna Insel (Friederichsen, 1895, Tafel 7 facing p.304). Isola Ætna (Faustini, 1904, p.5). Ätna-Insel (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904b, Vol. 2, p.296). Île Etna (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904c, map p.232-33). Isla Etna (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904-05, Tomo 1, end map). Etna Ön (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904a, Del. 1, end map). Etna Island ([incorrectly shown E of Cape Fitzroy] Nordenskjöld and others, 1905, map facing p.316; BA chart 3205, 31.x.1921; [correctly indicated] APC, 1955, p.9; BA chart 3205, 25.iii.1957). Etna Insel (Nordenskjöld, 1917, map facing p.68). Etna Ö (HA chart, 1928). Aetna Island (USHO chart 1132, 1930). Islote Etna (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.318; Pierrou, 1970, p.351; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.119). The island was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57. Ostrov Etna (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961).
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