Name details

Cheshire Island

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

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

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 138361

Feature type: Island

Origin

This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Narrative

A small island 80 m by 80 m situated about 25 m offshore from Rothera Point, Adelaide Island. Named after Alan Armstrong Cheshire (b.1955), British Antarctic Survey radio operator at Faraday and Rothera research stations 1976-79.

Named For

Location

Latitude:

67° 34' 23.0" S

-67.57306°

Unknown precision

Longitude:

68° 07' 29.0" W

-68.12472°

Unknown precision

Altitude:

Not recorded

Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:

Unknown

Source Name:

Unknown

Source Identifier:

Source Scale:

Unknown

Source Institution:

Unknown

Source Person:

Unknown

Source Publisher:

Unknown

Remote sensing:

Not Applicable

Comments

request by Adrian Fox, June 2018

Approval status

Status:

Unknown

Date approved:

14-Apr-2016

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