Sterna Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Sterna 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:
N of Darboux Island and WNW of Cape PĂ©rez, Graham Coast, was charted by an RN Hydrographic Survey Unit in co-operation with FIDS, 1957-58, and so named because numbers of Antarctic terns (Sterna vittata) breed on the island (APC, 1959a, p.11; BA chart 3573, 26.viii.1960). Islote Sterna (Chile. DNH chart 1502, 1962; IHA, 1974, p.268).
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