Name details

Vicars Island

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

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

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 941

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 small ice-covered island about 4 km off the coast of Enderby Land. Discovered on 12 January, 1930, by BANZARE under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it after an Australian textile company which presented the expedition with cloth for uniforms.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
65° 50' 37.3" S
-65.84369°
Accurate to 20m
Longitude:
54° 24' 31.7" E
54.40881°
Accurate to 20m
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Surveyed
Source Name:
AADC Survey Control Data Base
Source Identifier:
Survey Control ( NMS308 - Vicars Island)
Source Scale:
1:Not applicable
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
Geoscience Australia - National Mapping
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
7-Dec-1976

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