Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Abbott Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Abbott Island (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Island
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
near head of Bouquet Bay, between Brabant Island and Liège Island, was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57; in association with the names of pioneers of medicine grouped in this area, named after Maude Abbott (1869-1940), American authority on congenital heart disease (APC, 1960, p.2; BA chart 3560, 7.iv.1961). Isla Abbott (Chile. DNH chart 1400, 1961; IHA, 1974, p.17). Islas Abbott (Argentina.AA, 1991, p.1)
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