Name details

Rowett Island

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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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 110963

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

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).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
61° 17' 07.3" S
-61.28536°
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Longitude:
55° 12' 54.3" W
-55.21508°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Images

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Map

Source

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

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
20-Sep-1955

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