Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Pullen Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Pullen 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:
in Violante Inlet, Black Coast, on the landward side of Larsen Ice Shelf, ice-covered except for a 500-m rock face at its NE end, was photographed from the air by USAS, 30 December 1940, and named after William A. Pullen, USN, aviation machinist's mate at the expedition's "East Base" ([in 73°00'S 59°15'W] USAAF chart [LR-74], 1942; [in 72°35'S 60°57'W] BA chart 3175, 12.xi.1954; APC, 1955, p.17; DCS 601 sheet 72 60, 1956; [co-ordinates corrected] APC, 1977, p.27; USGS sketch map Palmer Land (North Part), 1979). Isla Pullen (Argentina. IGM map, 1946; Pierrou, 1970, p.608; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.242). The island was surveyed by FIDS-RARE from "Stonington Island" in November 1947 and found to lie c. 75km NW of its reported position. Ostrov Pullen (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). The island was further photographed from the air by USN, 1966-69, and mapped from air photographs by USGS.
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