Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Chavez Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Chavez 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:
forming W entrance of Leroux Bay, Graham Coast, was charted by FAE, 1908-10, and named Île Chavez after Cmdte Alfonso Chaves [sic], who assisted the expedition at Punta Delgada, Azores, in 1910 (Charcot, 1910, p.366; 1912, Pl. 1). Île Chaves (Bongrain, 1914, p.38). Île Lippmann, in error (Lippmann Islands, q.v.) (Bongrain, 1914, vue 18 following p.60). Chavez Island (BA chart 3175, 9.x.1914; APC, 1955, p.7; DOS 610 sheet W 65 64, 1959). Chavez Öya (HA chart, 1927). Isla Chávez (Argentina. IGM map, 1946; [erroneously positioned off Cape Garcia] Vila Labra, 1947, map facing p.200; [correctly indicated] Chile. IHA, 1974, p.74). Isla Chaves (Argentina. MM, 1956, p.101; Pierrou, 1970, p.285). The island was photographed from the air by FIDASE in 1956-57. Chavez Islands (USHO, 1961, p.181). Chávez Island (USOO chart 9646, 1964).
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