Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Woolpack Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Woolpack 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:
on W side of Grandidier Channel, Graham Coast, NE of Vieugue Island, was charted and named, probably descriptively, by BGLE in August 1935 (Rymill, 1938a, map facing p.400: BA chart 3196, 12.xi.1948; APC, 1955, p.22; DOS 610 sheet W 6564, 1959). Isla Woolpack (Rymill and others, 1943, map facing p.96; Pierrou, 1970, p.729; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.304). The island was surveyed from the ground by FIDS from "Prospect Point", 1957-58. Isla Wollpack [sic] (Chile. IGM map 9, 1966).
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