Turnabout Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Turnabout 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:
SE-most of the Saffery Islands (q.v.), W of Black Head, Graham Coast, was surveyed by BGLE in August 1935 and so named because it marked the turning point of the survey party sledging S from Argentine Islands (Rymill, 1938a, map facing p.400; DCS 9 sheet C, 1948; APC, 1959a, p.12). Islas Turnabout, referring to the group of islands (Rymill and others, 1943, map facing p.96). Isla Cumulo [= pile island] (Chile. DNH chart LII, 1947). Turnabout Islet (BA chart 3196, 12.xi.1948; APC, 1955, p.21; DCS 601 sheet 66 64, 1955). Isla Turnabout (Argentina. MM chart 107, 1949). Islote Regreso [translation of English name] (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.333; Pierrou, 1970, p.620). Isla Regreso (Argentina. MM chart 131, 1957). Islote Turnabout (Chile. DNH chart 1500, 1963; IHA, 1974, p.285).
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