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)
Pabellón Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Pabellón 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:
southern of two small islands off the NW point of Omega Island (q.v.), Melchior Islands, Dallmann Bay, was roughly charted by DI in 1927; further charted by USAS in March 1941, when the name Transit Rocks was applied collectively to the two small islands (Berlin and Shirley, chart, [1941]); recharted by AAE, 1946-47, and named Islote Pabellón [=flag islet] after the Argentine flag which was installed there (Argentina. MM chart 101, 1946; Pierrou, 1970, p.571; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.219). Pabellon [sic] Islet (BA chart 3213, 18.vii.1947; APC, 1955, p.16). IÎle Pabellón (France. SHM, 1954, p.48). Pabellón Island (APC, 1959a, p.9; BA chart 3213, 12.viii.1960).
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