Sanctuary Islands (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Sanctuary Islands (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:
off NW end of Chavez Island, Grandidier Channel, Graham Coast, were photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57, and surveyed from the ground by FIDS from "Prospect Point", 1957-58; so named because the islands provided sheltered camp sites for FIDS parties and several small boat anchorages for an RN Hydrographic Survey Unit in 1957-58 (APC, 1959a, p.11; BA chart 3573, 26.viii.1960).
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