Honkala Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Honkala Island (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 Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
An island in the Swain Group about 5 km north-east of Wilkes. The region was photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47) and by ANARE in 1956. Plotted from air photographs taken by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956). Included in a ground survey carried out in 1957 by C.R. Eklund. Named by USACAN after R.A. Honkala, a member of the 1957 Wilkes party.
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