Johansen Islands (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Johansen 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:
five small islands WNW of Cape Vostok, Alexander Island, were sighted from USS Bear on her initial approach to establish the "East Base" of USAS in 1940; named after Bendik Johansen, ice pilot on USAS and previously ice pilot on USAE, 1928-30 and 1933-35 ([in 68°45'S 72°00'W] USAAF chart [LR-74], 1942; [in 69°05'S 72°50'W] USHO chart 2562, 1943; [in 69°05'S 72°07'W] USHO, 1943, photograph p.167; [in 69°03'S 72°52'W] BA chart 3571, 12.ix.1952; APC, 1975, p.4). Islas Johansen (Argentina. IGM map, 1946; Pierrou, 1970, p.449). Johansen Öyane (Hansen, chart [no number], 1947). IÎles Joansen [sic] (France. SHM chart 5879, 1956). Ostrova Yukhansen (Nudel'man, 1960, loose map). Islotes Johansen (Chile. DNH, 1962, p.203; IHA, 1974, p.165).
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