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Yalour Islands (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Yalour 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:
on E side of Penola Strait, Graham Coast, E of Argentine Islands, were roughly surveyed by FAE, 1903-05, in 1904 and named IÁles Jallour [sic] after Tte de Fragata (later Capt.) Jorge Yalour (also spelt Jalour), of the Argentine Navy, Second-in-Command of the sloop-of-war Uruguay (Uruguay Cove, q.v.) which, in 1904-05, was used to search for evidence of the safety and progress of FAE; Delegate of the Instituto Geogra fico Argentino on the Uruguay relief expedition for SwAE in 1903; in command for relief of Laurie Island, 1907-08 (Charcot, 1906b, p.474; 1912, Pl.3). IÁle Jallour [sic], referring to the largest island (Gourdon, 1908, end map). Jallour [sic] Islets (Charcot, [1911b], p.61; BA, 1916, p.406; 1948, p.204). Jallous [sic] Islets (St. Johnston, 1920, p.97). Jallour [sic] Islands (Holtedahl, 1929, p.24; USHO, 1943, p.142). IÁlots Jallour [sic], IÁlots Jalour (France. SHM, 1937, p.407). Jallour [sic] Isles (USHO, 1943, p.141). Isla Yalour, referring to the largest island (Argentina. IGM map, 1946). Islotes Yalour (Argentina. MM chart 107, 1949; Pierrou, 1970, p.731). Jalour Islets (APC, 1955, p.12; BA, 1958, p.89). Yalour Islets (USBGN, 1956, p.331). The islands were photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57, and resurveyed by FIDS-RN in 1958. Jalour Islands (APC, 1959a, p.8; BA chart 3572, 12.viii.1960; 29.xi.1974). Yalour Islands (DOS 610 sheet W 65 64, 1959; APC, 1960, p.8; USBGN, 1964, p.18; BA, 1977, p.6; chart 3573, 20.iv.1984). Islote [sic] Yalour, in error (Chile. IHA, 1974, p.307). South Island, referring to one of the central islands (Croxall and Kirkwood, 1979, Map 4.1.1).
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