Name details

Jagged Island (Grandidier Channel)

Jagged Island (Grandidier Channel) (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Jagged Island (Grandidier Channel)  (The name as it would appear on a map)

If this information is incorrect, please e-mail mapping@aad.gov.au

Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 109499

Feature type: Island

Origin

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:

Narrative

off entrance of Holtedahl Bay, Graham Coast, E of Dodman Island, was possibly sighted by FAE, 1908 10, in 1909; roughly mapped by BGLE in 1935 36 and named descriptively (Rymill, 1938a, map facing p.400; APC, 1955, p.12; DOS 610 sheet W 65 64, 1959). Isla Jagged (Rymill and others, 1943, map facing p.96; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.163). Isla Mellado [=notched island] (Chile. DNH chart LII, 1947). Isla Rosales, probably so called after Coronel de Marina Leonardo Rosales (1792 1836), Argentine naval officer (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.295). The island was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956 57. Isla Vélez Sársfield, so called by AAE after Dr Dalmatio Vélez Sársfield (1793 1875), Argentine lawyer and statesman (Argentina. MM chart 131, 1957; Pierrou, 1970, p.710). Isla Vélez Sarfield[sic] (Argentina. MM, 1958b, p.154).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
65° 59' 00.0" S
-65.98333°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
65° 41' 00.0" W
-65.68333°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Unknown
Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Unknown
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
20-Sep-1955

Display Scales

Note These display scales were chosen for use by Australia, with an emphasis on East Antarctica.
          For example, selecting 'Aus_display_scale_20M' would only return names that would appear on a 1:20 million scale map.

Aus_display_scale_20M: No      Aus_display_scale_10M: No     
Aus_display_scale_5M: No      Aus_display_scale_2M: No     
Aus_display_scale_1M: No      Aus_display_scale_500k: No     
Aus_display_scale_250k: No      Aus_display_scale_100k: No     
Aus_display_scale_50k: No      Aus_display_scale_25k: No     
Aus_display_scale_10k: No      Aus_display_scale_5k: No     
Aus_display_scale_1k: No     


Related information

Biodiversity
View fauna, flora or both within 1.0 degree of this location

Place names
View British or international place names within 1.0 degree of this location.