Jagar Islands

Jagar Islands (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Jagar Islands  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 7035
Name ID: 1121

Feature type: Island

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

A group of small islands off the coast of Kemp Land near Cape Boothby. The islands were first visited by parties from the ANARE Expedition on the MV Nella Dan, 1965, led by Phillip Law. Plotted from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Jagarene (The Hunters) by Norwegian cartographers.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
66° 35' 05.0" S
-66.58472°
Accurate to 100m
Longitude:
57° 19' 51.7" E
57.33103°
Accurate to 100m
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:
Topographic data
Source Name:
Unknown
Source Identifier:
Metadata ( AAT_Coastline_2003 - Australian Antarctic Territory Coastline 2003 )
Source Scale:
1:30000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
Geoscience Australia
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
29-Jul-1965

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