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Wauwermans Islands (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Wauwermans Islands (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:
N-most group of islands in Wilhelm Archipelago (q.v.), bounded to the N by Bismarck Strait, to the E by Butler Passage, and to the S by Nimrod Passage, individual islands being named for the most part after characters from Chaucer's Canterbury tales. The islands were roughly charted by BeAE, 9 February 1898, when a landing was made on one of the islands; named Îles Wauwermans after Lieut. Gen. H. Wauwermans of Antwerp, a benefactor of the expedition (Lecointe, map, 1899; 1900a, p.33-34 and map facing p.132). Wauwermans Islands (Cook, 1900, map p.xx; BA chart 3196, 12.xi.1948; APC, 1955, p.22; BA chart 3572, 25.vii.1958). Wauwerman [sic] Islands (BA chart 3205, 1.vi.1901). Wauwerman's Islands (Arçtowski, 1901b, map facing p.464). Wauwermann [sic] -Insel, Wauwermansinseln (Cook, 1903, map following p.x and p.108). Île [sic] Wauwermans (Lecointe, 1903, Carte 5). The islands were further charted by FAE, 1903-05. Wauwerman [sic] Inseln, Wauwermans Öarna, Islas Wauwerman [sic] (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904b, Vol.2, first end map; 1904a, Del. 1, end map; 1904-05, Tomo 1, end map). Archipel Wauwermanns [sic] (Charcot, 1906b, p.47). Wauwermans Öyane (HA chart, 1928). Îles Wauwermann [sic], Wauwermann (France. SHM, 1937, p.406-7). Wauwermanns [sic] Islands, Wauwermann [sic] Islands (USHO, 1943, p.133; chart 6653, 1946). Islas Wauwermann [sic] (Chile. DNH chart LI, 1947). Islas Wauwermanns [sic] (Argentina. MM chart 106, 1949). Islas Wauwermans (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.258; Pierrou, 1970, p.723; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.299). Wauwermann Island, as rejected form (USBGN, 1956, p.319). The islands were photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57, and partially recharted by an RN Hydrographic Survey Unit from HMS Protector, 1956-58. Islas Wauwvermans [sic](Argentina. MM chart 130, 1957). Ostrova Vauvermans (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). Wauwermanns [sic] Group (BA, 1961, p.170). Grupo Wauwermans (Chile. DNH, 1962, p.169).
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