Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Dobrowolski Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Dobrowolski 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:
off SE coast of Parker Peninsula, Anvers Island, was charted by DI in 1927 and named Astrolabe Island probably at that time (BA chart 3213, 14.i.1929). Isla Astrolabio (Chile. DNH chart LI, 1947). Astrolabe Islet (BA, 1948, p.195; chart 3213, 6.x.1950). Islote Astrolabe (Argentina. MM chart 106, 1949; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.33). Islote Coria, after a soldier of the Argentine frigate 25 de Mayo killed in a naval battle in 1826 (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.269). Islote Capitán Martínez Canaveri, after the Commander of FATA who died on active service (Argentina. MM chart 129, 1957; Pierrou, 1970, p.237). Following air photography by FIDASE, 1956-57, the island was renamed Dobrowolski Island after Antoni Boles aw Dobrowolski (1872-1954), Polish meteorologist and member of BeAE; author of Historia naturalna lodu [The natural history of ice] (Warsaw, 1923) (APC, 1959a, p.6; BA chart 3566, 16.x.1959).
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