SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Galkin Island

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

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

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Place ID: 5076
Name ID: 1034

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:

Galkina, ostrov (Russia)

Narrative

A small island about 3.7 km north of the Shaw Islands in Casey Bay, Enderby Land. Photographed by ANARE in 1956 and the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1957. Named by the Soviet Expedition after N. Galkin, physician with the Bellingshausen Expedition (1819-21).

Named For

Location

Latitude:

67° 31' 18.2" S

-67.52172°

Accurate to 200m

Longitude:

47° 41' 17.3" E

47.68814°

Accurate to 200m

Altitude:

Not recorded

Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:

Satellite Image

Source Name:

LIMA - Landsat Image Mosaic Antarctica

Source Identifier:

Satellite image ( Satellite Image Catalogue - Scene Id E129_RGB_321_1X not in the Satellite Image Catalogue. )

Source Scale:

1:50000

Source Institution:

Australian Antarctic Division

Source Person:

Brolsma

Source Publisher:

USGS - United States Geological Survey

Remote sensing:

Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:

Official

Date approved:

31-Jul-1972

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