Inaccessible Islands (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Inaccessible 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 of Coronation Island, comprising three main islands and offlying rocks, the W-most part of the South Orkney Islands, were charted by Powell from Dove, 6 December 1821, as "three spiral rocks quite inaccessible", and named Inaccessible Isles (Powell, 1822b, p.7-8; chart, 1822a). IÎles Inacessibles [sic](Powell, 1824a, map facing p.5). Inaccessible Islands (BA chart 1238, ix.1839; 1775, 17.viii.1934; APC, 1955, p.12; DOS 510 South Orkney Islands, West Sheet, 1963). IÎles Inaccessibles (d'Urville, 1838, map following p.1170). IÎles Inaceesibles [sic] (d'Urville, 1842, end map). Inaccessible Inseln (Petermann, map, 1867). The Inaccessibles (BA, 1874, p.367). Inaccessibles Inseln (Fricker, 1898, map p.119). Isla Inacesible [sic] (Riso Patron S., 1908, end map). Inaccessible Island (Sørlle, chart, 1912). IÎles Inaccessible (CSM chart B'I 1921). Islas Inaccesibles [sic] (Argentina. MM chart 31, 1930; Pierrou, 1970, p.437). Inaccessible Øyane (Sørlle, chart, [1930]). The islands were recharted by DI in January 1933, when the first landing was made (Marr, 1935, p.295). Inaccesslble [sic] Islands (USHO chart 2562, 1943). Inacoessible [sic] Islands (USAAF chart [LR-] 74, 1943). Islas Inaccesible (Ihl C. and Ayala A., map facing p.64). Inaccessable [sic] Öyane (Hansen, 1947a, chart 5). Ostrova Inaksessibl (Baranov and others, 1954, map p.283). Inacessable [sic] Island (USHO chart 958, 1956). Inaccesible [sic] Islands (USDMAAC chart JNC-118N, 1975).
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