Flensing Islands (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Flensing Islands (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:
four islands off W coast of Signy Island, were charted by Sørlle in 1912-13 and named Flenserne [=flense islands], possibly because the islands were used as a place for flensing whales (Sørlle and Borge, chart, 1913). Flanseme [sic] (Moe, chart, 1913). Flenserne Rocks (BA, 1916, p.414; Nelson and others, chart, 1933). The islands were recharted by DI in 1933. Flensing Islets (BA chart 1775, 17.viii.1934; APC, 1955, p.10). Flensing Islands (BA chart 1775, 1938; APC, 1959a, p.6; DOS 210 Signy Island sheet, 1973). Rocas Flensing (Argentina. MM, 1945, p.275; Pierrou, 1970, p.365).
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