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)
Petermanninsel (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Petermanninsel (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Island (5)
This name originates from Germany. It is part of the Germany Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
S-most island of the Vedel Islands, at the end of the Lemaire Channel, NE of the Argentine Iaslands, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Inseln, Graham Coast, W side of the Antarctic Peninsula. Discovered during German Antarctic Expedition 1873/74 under Captain Eduard Dallmann (1830-1896).
August Heinrich Petermann (1822-1878), German geographer, cartographer and publisher of the geographic journal 'Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen'.
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