Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Lemaire Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Lemaire 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 N side of Paradise Harbour, Danco Coast, was roughly charted by BeAE, 10-11 February 1898, and named IÎle Lemaire, after Capt. C. Lemaire (Lemaire Channel, q.v.) (Lecointe, map, 1899; 1900a, map facing p.132). Lemaire Island (Cook, 1900, map p.xx; BA chart 3205, 1.vi.1901; 25.iii.1937; APC, 1955, p.13; BA chart 3566, 16.x.1959). Lemaire-Insel (Cook, 1903, map following p.x). Lemaires Ön (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904a, Del.1, end map). Isla Lemaire (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904-05, Tomo 1, end map; Pierrou, 1970, p.477; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.182). The island was further charted by BAE, 1920-22 (Bagshawe, 1921-22a, Vol.4, p.192). Lemaire Ö (HA chart, 1928). Lemaireön (Frödin, 1956, p.97). The island was photographed from the air by FIDASE and surveyed from the ground by FIDS from "Danco Island", 1956-58. Bryde Island (q.v.), in error (USAF chart 1762, 1959).
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