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)
Rothschild, Isla (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Rothschild, Isla (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Island (5)
This name originates from Chile. It is part of the Chile Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
Fue avistada y denominada por la Expedición Francesa 1908-1910, al mando del Dr. Jean B. Charcot. Al examinar fotos aéreas de esta isla tomadas del Servicio Antártico de los Estados Unidos de 1939-1941 se deduce que puede estar conectada, por una masa de tierra baja y cubierta de hielo, por su lado E a una cadena montañosa haciendo esta isla mucho mayor de 10 millas como se había representado anteriormente. Isla situada al W del extremo N de la isla Alejandro I a la entrada N al estrecho Wilkins.
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