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)
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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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:
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.
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