Rowett Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Rowett 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 Cape Lookout, Elephant Island, was known to the sealers in the 1820s; charted by the Shackleton-Rowett Antarctic Expedition, 1921-22, and named after John Quiller Rowett (1876-1924), school friend of Sir Ernest Shackleton and main financial supporter of that expedition (Wild, 1923a, map p.351; BA chart 3175, 3.vi.1927; 1.iii.1940; [in 61°20'S 55°30'W] APC, 1959a, p.10; [co-ordinates corrected] DOS sheet W 61 54 (Ext.), 1-GSGS 1972; APC, 1977, p.28). Rowett Ö (HA chart, 1928). Isla Rowett (Argentina. MM chart 64, 1939; Pierrou, 1970, p.638; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.250). IÎle Rowett (France. SHM chart 1148, 1947). Rowett Islet (BA, 1948, p.147; [in 61°20'S 55°20'W] chart 3205, 23.ix.1949; [in 61°20'S 55°30'W] APC, 1955, p.18). Islote Rowett (Chile. DNH chart L, 1951). Isla Rowet [sic] (Cordini, 1955, p.78). Ostrov Rouett (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). The island was surveyed by JSEEI in December 1970. Rowett (Mogford in Furse, 1979, p.206).
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