Name details

Lesser Mackellar Island

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

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

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 138300

Feature type: Island (5)

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

A small island immediately NE of Greater Mackellar Island in the Mackellar Islands, lying 3.7km N of Cape Denison in the centre of Commonwealth Bay.

Named For

The Mackellar Islands were discovered by AAE (1911-14) under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named them after C.D. Mackellar of London, a patron of the expedition. The name Lesser Mackellar Island is indicative of the size of the feature in relation to Greater Mackellar Island.

Location

Latitude:
66° 58' 16.0" S
-66.97111°
Accurate to 15m
Longitude:
142° 38' 04.0" E
142.63444°
Accurate to 15m
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:
Satellite Image The coordinates for this place name were derived from Map id 12754 - Cape Denison and Mackellar Islands - George V Land Coast in the SCAR Map Catalogue.
Source Name:
Georeferenced IKONOS image 31 Jan 2001
Source Identifier:
Metadata ( capeden_sat_ikonos - Cape Denison satellite image mosaic )
Source Scale:
1:15,000
Source Institution:
AAD
Source Person:
AADC
Source Publisher:
Unknown
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Name adopted from USA who named the island in 1963

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
14-Aug-2018

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