Name details
Plough Island
Plough Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Plough Island (The name as it would appear on a map)
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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:
- Plog Island (United States of America)
- Plough Island (Russia)
Narrative
A small island about 2 km long, off Broad Peninsula in the central part of the Vestfold Hills. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Plogøy (Plough Island.
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Images
©AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1972
- Catalogue id
- 2670B3
- Photographer
- Johnstone, Gavin W
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