Name details

Pléneau Island

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

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

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 110656

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

NE of Hovgaard Island, Graham Coast. The NE point of the island was charted by FAE, 1903-05, and named Pointe Pléneau after Paul Pléneau, photographer on the expedition (Charcot, 1906b, p.474; 1908, map p.36). The island was mapped by FAE, 1908-10, as a peninsula joined to Hovgaard Island (Matha and Rey, 1911, Pl.5 following p.615). After the island had been charted by an RN Hydrographic Survey Unit, 1957-58, and the very narrow channel between the two islands navigated by survey launch, the name of Pléneau was transferred to the island itself. Pléneau Island (APC, 1959a, p.10; BA chart 3572, 12.viii.1960).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
65° 06' 00.0" S
-65.10000°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
64° 05' 00.0" W
-64.08333°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
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Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
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Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Unknown
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
7-Jul-1959

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