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)
Neny Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Neny 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:
rising to 675m W of Roman Four Promontory and forming the W entrance point of Neny Bay, Marguerite Bay, Fallières Coast, was surveyed by BGLE in 1936 and so named in association with Neny Fjord (q.v.) (Rymill, 1938a, map facing p.432; APC, 1955, p.15; DCS 601 sheet 68 66, 1955). Neny Mountain (Black, 1945, p.9). The island was further surveyed and climbed by FIDS from "Stonington Island", 1946-48. Isla Neny (Chile. DNH chart 530, 1947; Pierrou, 1970, p.546; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.210). Neny Islands, as rejected form (USBGN, 1947, p.205). Islote Neny (Sgrosso, 1948, p.186). Neny-Øya (Rønne, 1950b, p.42). Neny Eiland (Knapp, 1958, p.581).
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