Lynch Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Lynch 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:
E side of Marshall Bay, Coronation Island, was roughly charted by Sørlle, 1912-13, and further charted by DI in 1933; following resurvey by FIDS from Signy, 1948-49, named Lynch Islet after Thomas B. Lynch, American sealer who visited the South Orkney Islands in the schooner Express (Express Cove, q.v.) in 1880 (APC, 1955, p.14). Lynch Island (APC, 1959a, p.9; DOS 510 South Orkney Islands, West Sheet, 1963). In 1967 the island was designated SPA No.14 under the Antarctic Treaty (FO, 1967, p.8).
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