Galten Islands

Galten Islands (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Galten Islands  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 5087
Name ID: 1035

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

Two small islands separated by a narrow channel about 18 m wide in the eastern part of Magnet Bay. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Galten (The Boar). First visited by an ANARE party led by Bruce H. Stinear in September, 1957.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
66° 22' 51.4" S
-66.38094°
Accurate to 200m
Longitude:
56° 25' 54.9" E
56.43192°
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 E149_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:
29-Apr-1958

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