Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Steele Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Steele 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:
properly an ice rise at Larsen Ice Front, rising to c. 350m off Imshaug Peninsula, Black Coast, was surveyed by USAS in December 1940 and named after Clarence E. Steele, tractor driver at the expedition's "East Base" (USAAF chart [LR-74], 1942; Mason, 1950a, map facing p.151; BA chart 3175, 12.xi.1954; APC, 1955, p.20; DCS 601 sheet 70 60, 1955; BAS 250 sheets SR 19-20/12 and 16, 1-DOS 1976); resurveyed by FIDS from "Stonington Island" in November 1947. Isla Steele (Argentina. IGM map, 1946; Pierrou, 1970, p.671; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.267). Steel [sic] Øya (Rønne, 1950b, p.140). Steele Öya (Hansen, chart [no number], 1947). Ostrov Stil (Baranov and others, 1954, map p.283). Île Steele (France. SHM chart 5879, 1956). Steele-Insel (Kosack, 1955a, end map). Altimetric data for the feature were obtained on a radio echo-sounding flight by BAS in February 1975.
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