Hunt Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Hunt 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:
off E coast of Brabant Island at SW end of Freud Passage, was roughly charted by BeAE in January 1898 (Lecointe, 1903, Carte 5); called Isla Jenie by CAE, 1947, after a relative of a member of the expedition (Chile. DNH chart LI, 1947; IHA, 1974, p.164); called Isla Pampa by AAE, 1947-48, after the transport ship Pampa, which took part in the expedition (Argentina. MM chart 106, 1949; Pierrou, 1970, p.573); surveyed by FIDS from Norsel in April 1955 and photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57; named Hunt Island after Lieut. Cdr (later Cdr) Frank William Hunt, RN (b. 1922), Officer-in-charge of the RN Hydrographic Survey Unit attached to FIDS, 1951-52, who made surveys in Bransfield Strait and the Palmer Archipelago area (APC, 1958, p.5; BA chart 3566, 16.x.1959). Pampa Island (USBGN, 1965, p.103).
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