Rookery Island 5 (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Rookery Island 5 (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Island
This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Informal Antarctic/sub-Antarctic Gazetteer.
This place name refers to a specific island in the Rookery Islands group, off the Mawson coast, Antarctica. The name first appeared in publication in Horne (1983) and subsequently in Woehler et al. (1989).
The location given is for the approximate centre of the island, and was estimated to the nearest second from the GIS dataset for AAD map 12738 [Rookery Islands (SPA 2)] on 20/05/02.
Horne, R.S.C. (1983) The Distribution of Penguin Breeding Colonies on the Australian Antarctic Territory, Heard Island, the McDonald Islands, and Macquarie Island. ANARE Research Notes 9. Antarctic Division, Department of Science and Technology.
Woehler, E.J., Johnstone, G.W. and Burton, H.R. (1989) The distribution and abundance of Adelie penguins, Pygoscelis adeliae, in the Mawson area and at the Rookery Islands (Specially Protected Area 2), 1981 and 1988. ANARE Research Notes 71. Antarctic Division, Australia.
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