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)
Single Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Single 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:
A high ice-covered island on the western side of the Amery Ice Shelf. Plotted as a peninsula from ANARE air photographs. An astrofix was obtained at Trost Rocks, a rock outcrop on the north-eastern side of the island by D.R. Carstens, surveyor at Mawson in 1962. The feature was found to be an island by a party from the ANARE Prince Charles Mountains survey party in 1971. Named after M. Single, senior diesel mechanic at Mawson in 1962, a member of the field party which first visited the area.
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