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)
Barrier Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Barrier 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 island about 1.5 km long, elongated north-south in the entrance to Tryne Sound in the northern part of the Vestfold Hills. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37).
First visited by an ANARE sledging party led by Bruce H. Stinear in April, 1957, and so named because the island appeared to form a barrier to the passage of icebergs up Tryne Fjord.
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