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)
Norris Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Norris Island (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Island
This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
The largest island of the Colbeck Archipelago, near the coast of Mac.Robertson Land, about 3 km north of Stump Mountain. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from our photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Teksla.
Renamed after D. Norris, auroral physicist at Mawson in 1959.
No images of this place could be found.
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