Wollan Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Wollan 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:
SW of Bernal Islands, Crystal Sound, Loubet Coast, was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57, and surveyed from the ground by FIDS from "Detaille Island", 1958-59; in association with the names of glaciologists grouped in this area, named after Ernest Omar Wollan (b. 1902), American physicist who used neutron diffraction to study the structure of ice (APC, 1960, p.8; BA chart 3571, 14.vii.1961).
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