Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Solitary Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Solitary 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 steep-sided, island with three outlying rocks, between Hobs Island and Scoble Glacier on the coast of Mac.Robertson Land.
Mapped from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Uksen by Norwegian cartographers. Renamed because it is one of the few islands on this coast which does not occur in a group.
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