Name details

Liège Island

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

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

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 109828

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 NE coast of Brabant Island, Palmer Archipelage. The E coast was roughly charted by BeAE, 23-25 January 1898, and the island named IÎle Liège after the Belgian province of Liège which subscribed to the expedition (Lecointe, chart, 1899; 1900a, map facing p.132; Charcot, 1906a, map facing p.316). Liège Island (Cook, 1900, p.137; BA, 1916, photograph facing p.402; chart 3205, 23.ix.1949; APC 1955, p.13; BA chart 3205, 23.xi.1962). Liege [sic] Island (Cook, 1900, map p.xx; BA chart 1238, ix.1908; 3205, 2.ix.1938; 1948, views facing p.186). Hoseason Island (Liege Island), the two islands being charted as a single island (Hoseason Island, q.v.) (BA chart 3205, 1.vi.1901). Isola Liège (Gerlache, 1902a). Lüttich-Insel [German form] (Cook, 1903, map following p.x). The whole coast of the island was roughly charted by FAE, 1903-05, on 13 February 1905. Liège Insel, Liège Ön, Isla Liege (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904b, Vol.2, first end map; 1904a, Del.1, end map; 1904-05, Tomo 1, end map). Luik Eiland [Dutch form] (Ruys, 1905, map following p.88). Isla Lieja (Rise Patron S., 1908, end map; Pierrou, 1970, p.483; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.184). Liégeöen [sic] (Aagaard, 1930, end map). Liègeøia (Isachsen, 1934, p.134). Liegeøya (Aagaard, 1944, p.32). Liége [sic] Island (USBGN, 1947, p.191; [as rejected form] USBGN, 1956, p.192). Lüttich Island, as rejected form (USBGN, 1947, p.192). The island was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57. Lieja (Argentina. MM, 1957a, p.116). Ostrov L'yezh (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). Liège (Soviet Union. GUGK map 221, 1973).

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Location

Latitude:
64° 01' 00.0" S
-64.01667°
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Longitude:
61° 56' 00.0" W
-61.93333°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Map

Source

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Source Institution:
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Source Person:
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Source Publisher:
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Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

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Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
8-Sep-1953

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