Name details

Fisher Island

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

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

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 977

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 crescent shaped island west of Broknes Peninsula in the Larsemann Hills. Plotted from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition 1936-37 and called Sigdxy by Norwegian cartographers.

Named For

Named after M M Fisher, Surveyor at Mawson in 1957, who carried out the first astrofix in the Larsemann Hills near the western end of this island during the period 12-14 August 1957.

Location

Latitude:
69° 23' 30.0" S
-69.39167°
Accurate to 25m
Longitude:
76° 15' 27.2" E
76.25755°
Accurate to 25m
Altitude:
117 m
Accurate to 10m

Images


©Adam Christensen 2009
Catalogue id
IA21772
Caption
Fisher Island, Larsemann Hills. Taken from helicopter at height of 2000 feet. Looking Southwest.
Photographer
Christensen, Adam

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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