Reid Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Reid 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:
SW of Olivine Point, S Coronation Island, was roughly charted as a group of islands by Sørlle, 1912-13, and, in association with Gerd Island (q.v.) and Mariholm (q.v.), named Reidholmen after his daughter Reidunn, Mrs O. Holtedahl (Holtedahl Bay, q.v.) (Sørlle, chart, 1912; Sørlle and Borge, chart, 1913). Reidholm (Sørlle, chart, [1930]); recharted as one island by DI in 1933. Reid Island (Nelson, 1933, p.12; APC, 1959a, p.10; DOS 510 South Orkney Islands, West Sheet, 1963). Reid Islands, including two rocks E of Olivine Point (BA chart 1775, 17.viii.1934). IÎlots Reid (France. SHM, 1937, p.388). Reid Islets (BA, 1942, p.36; 1948, p.139; DCS 701 South Orkney Islands sheet, 1950). Isla Reid (Argentina. CNA, 1947, map p.45). The island was surveyed by FIDS from Signy, 1948-49. Islotes Reid (Argentina. MM chart 117, 1952; Pierrou, 1970, p.620). Reid Islet (APC, 1955, p.17). The island was further surveyed by FIDS from Signy, 1956-58. Isola Reid (Zavatti, 1958, Tav. 10). Islote Reid (Argentina. MM, NM 141/15.ix.1964).
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