Name details

Zimmerman Island

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

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

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 877

Feature type: Island

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

An island about a 0.6 km south-east of Werlein Island in the Windmill Islands. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Named after J.R. Zimmerman, meteorologist at Wilkes in 1958.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
66° 25' 35.0" S
-66.42639°
Accurate to 30m
Longitude:
110° 27' 24.1" E
110.45669°
Accurate to 30m
Altitude:
41 m
Accurate to 5m

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Topographic data
Source Name:
Windmill Islands 1:50000 GIS Dataset
Source Identifier:
Wind50K
Source Scale:
1:5000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
Australian Antarctic Division
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
23-Oct-1962

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