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)
Blake Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Blake 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:
The second largest island of a group of five in the western part of Oom Bay, Mac.Robertson Land. Probably first seen by BANZARE (1929-31) under Mawson. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographers taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37).
Called Kollskjer (Knoll Rock) but renamed by ANARE after J R Blake, auroral physicist at Mawson in 1958.
No images of this place could be found.
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