Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
McLeod Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
McLeod 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:
A large island lying about 2 km north of Stornes Peninsula in the Larsemann Hills. Plotted from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition 1936-37 and called Kollen (the knoll) by Norwegian cartographers.
Named after Ian McLeod, Geologist at Mawson in 1958 and a member of the ANARE party which landed in the Larsemann Hills in February 1958.
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