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)
Brockhamp Islands (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Brockhamp Islands (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:
two islands at N end of Laubeuf Fjord, Loubet Coast, were photographed from the air by FIDASE in 1956-57; in association with the names of glaciologists grouped in this area, named after Bernhard Brockhamp (1902-68), German glaciologist and Professor of Geophysics, University of Münster, who with H. Mothes (Mothes Point, q.v.) made the first seismic soundings of a glacier, in Austria in 1926; member of German Greenland Expedition, 1930-31 (A.L.Wegener, Mount Wegener, q.v.) (APC, 1960, p.3; BAS 250P sheet SQ 19-20/14 (Ext.), 1-DOS 1978). Islotes Brockhamp (Argentina. AA, 1991, p. 9)
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