Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Cecilia Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Cecilia 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:
S-most of the Aitcho Islands (q.v.), English Strait, was photographed from the air by FIDASE in 1956-57; called descriptively Isla Torre [=tower island] (Chile. DNH chart 1405, 1961; IHA. 1974, p.279); named Cecilia Island in association with English Strait (q.v.), formerly called Cecilias Straits by Capt. J. Davis, of the American sealing ship Huron of Newhaven (which visited the South Shetland Islands, 1820-22), after the shallop Cecilia, tender to Huron (APC, 1962, p.8; BA chart 1774, 19.viii.1968). Isla Tower, as rejected form (Chile. IHA, 1974, p.280).
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