Graptolite Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Graptolite 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:
in Fitchie Bay, E Laurie Island, was mapped by SNAE in 1903 and named Graptolite Isle (Bruce and others, chart, [1903c]; Pirie, 1913, Pl.1) or Graptolite Island (Bruce, 1905b, map facing p. 322; BA chart 1775, 17.viii.1934; APC, 1955, p.11) after the graptolite fossils, of the genus Pleurograptus, found there (Pirie, 1905). Graptolith Insel (Nordenskjöld, 1913, p.5). The island was charted by DI in 1933. Isla Graptolite (Argentina. MM, 1945, p.278). Isla Graptolita (Argentina. MM, 1957b, p.5; Pierrou, 1970, p.401). Isla Graftolite [sic] (Díaz Molano and Homet, [1948], map p.259). Islote Graptolito (Cordini, 1955, p.273). Graptolite Eiland (Knapp, 1958, p.574).
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