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)
Dixson Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Dixson 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:
An ice-covered rock mass on the western side of the mouth of the Ninnis Glacier on the coast of George V Land. The feature is about 19 km long and 9 km wide, rising to about 335 m. Discovered in 1912 by AAE (1911-14) under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it after Sir Hugh Dixson of Sydney, a patron of the expedition.
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