Name details

Rookery Islands

Rookery Islands (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Rookery Islands  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 900

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

A group of small islands and rocks in the western part of Holme Bay. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). One of the group was called Innerskjera (The Inner Skerry). Visited by ANARE sledging parties in 1954 and 1955.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
67° 36' 00.0" S
-67.60000°
Accurate to 100m
Longitude:
62° 31' 00.0" E
62.51667°
Accurate to 100m
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:
Topographic data
Source Name:
Holme Bay 1:10000 Rookery Islands Mapping
Source Identifier:
Metadata ( holme_bay_1_10000_rookery - Holme Bay 1:10000 Rookery Islands Mapping )
Source Scale:
1:50000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
D. Smith
Source Publisher:
Unknown
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
18-Feb-1958

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