Name details

Burnett Island

Burnett Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Burnett Island  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 1089

Feature type: Island

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

An island in the Swain Group about 5 km north-east of Wilkes off the Budd Coast. The region was photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), ANARE (1956) and the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956). It was included in a survey of the islands north of Wilkes carried out by C R Eklund, scientific leader at Wilkes in 1957.

Named For

Named by USACAN after Lt Donald R Burnett, USN, Military Support Unit Commander, Wilkes, 1957.  

Location

Latitude:
66° 13' 29.6" S
-66.22489°
Accurate to 30m
Longitude:
110° 35' 20.0" E
110.58889°
Accurate to 30m
Altitude:
12 m
Accurate to 5m

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Topographic data
Source Name:
Windmill Islands 1:50000 GIS Dataset
Source Identifier:
Metadata ( Wind50k - Windmill Islands 1:50000 Topographic GIS Dataset )
Source Scale:
1:5000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
Australian Antarctic Division
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
4-Jul-1961

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