Signy Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Signy Island (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Island (5)
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:
Island 4 mi long and less than 3 mi wide, lying close S of the middle of Coronation Island, in the South Orkney Islands. Unnamed, the appearance of the island was roughly plotted on James Weddell's chart of 1825. Capt. Petter Sorlle, in the Norwegian whale-catcher Palmer made a running survey of the island in the 1912-13 season. Named after Captain Sorlle's wife, Signy Sorlle. The island was surveyed in 1933 by DI personnel on the Discovery II and by the FIDS in the period 1947-50.
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