Name details

McCarthy Island

McCarthy Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

McCarthy Island  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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United States Gazetteer Id 128613

Feature type: Island (5)

Origin

This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

An island 2 mi long, lying just NE of Fold Island, off the coast of Enderby Land. Mapped as part of Fold Island (Foldoya) by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936-37. Identified as a separate island by an ANARE geological party, 1961. Named by ANCA for W.R. McCarthy, Australian petrologist, who described several hundred specimens from Antarctica collected by ANARE geologists.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
67° 16' 00.0" S
-67.26667°
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Longitude:
59° 25' 00.0" E
59.41667°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
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Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
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Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Unknown
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
1-Jan-1970

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