Name details

Knuckey Island

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

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

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 973

Feature type: Island

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Narrative

The largest of a group of three islands lying about 1.1 km north-west of the western end of Stornes Peninsula in the Larsemann Hills.

Named For

Named after Graham Knuckey, Surveyor at Mawson in 1958, who obtained an astrofix on the island and left a message on February 8 1958 from Phillip Law. The message was found by the 1987 summer party.

Location

Latitude:
69° 23' 15.1" S
-69.38752°
Accurate to 25m
Longitude:
76° 03' 52.9" E
76.06469°
Accurate to 25m
Altitude:
28 m
Accurate to 10m

Images


©Rick Oates 2009
Catalogue id
IA21784
Caption
Knuckey Island, Larsemann Hills. Taken from helicopter at height of 1200 feet. Looking Northwest.
Photographer
Oates, Rick

Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Larsemann Hills 1:25000 Topographic GIS Dataset
Source Identifier:
Lars25K
Source Scale:
1:25000
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:
29-Sep-1988

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