Mabel Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mabel 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:
NW of Cape Mabel (q.v.), Laurie Island, was called Islote Piragua [=canoe islet] in reference to its shape (Argentina. MM chart 31, 1930; Pierrou, 1970, p.595); charted by DI in 1933 and named Mabel Islet in association with the cape (BA chart 1775, 17.viii.1934; APC, 1955, p.14). Islote Mabel (Argentina. MM, 1945, p.278). Isla Mabel (Argentina. CNA, 1947, map p.45). Islas Weddell, in error (Weddell Islands, q.v.) (Argentina. IGM map 3738, 1958). Mabel Island (APC, 1959a, p.9; BA, 1961, p.247).
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