Mügge Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mügge 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:
one of the Bennett Islands (q.v.), Hanusse Bay, Loubet Coast, was called Isla Fresia by CAE, 1947, after the Chilean submarine Fresia (Chile. DNH chart LII, 1947; IHA, 1974, p.44); also called Islote Chayter by AAE probably after a member of the expedition (Argentina. MM, 1957a, p.3); in association with the names of glaciologists grouped in this area, named after Johannes Otto Conrad Mügge (1858-1932), German mineralogist who in 1895 made pioneer studies of the plasticity of ice (APC, 1960, p.6; BA, 1961, p.190; BAS 250P sheet SQ 19-20/10, 1-DOS 1979).
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