West Melchior Islands (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
West Melchior 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:
W group of the Melchior Islands (q.v.), Dallmann Bay, Palmer Archipelago, comprising Rho Islands, Lambda Island, Delta Island, Kappa Island, Gamma Island and smaller islands, were so named following a sketch survey by DI in 1927 (BA chart 3213, 14.i.1929; APC, 1955, p.22; BA chart 3213, 23.iii.1956). Islas Melchior del Oeste (Vila Labra, 1947, p.120). West Melchior Archipelago (BA chart 3213, 18.vii.1947; 1948, p.191). Islas Melchior Oeste (Chile. DNH chart 510, 1955).
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