Preston Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Preston 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 Henkes Islands (q.v.) off SW Adelaide Island, was charted by an RN Hydrographic Survey Unit from HMS Protector in 1963 and named after Frank Preston (b. 1938), FIDS surveyor, Adelaide and Faraday, 1960-61, and Base Leader, Adelaide, 1961-62, during the first wintering at that base (BA, 1963, p.13; APC, 1964, p.4; BA chart 3577, 14.viii.1964).
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