Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Black Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Black Island (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Island (5)
This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A wedge-shaped island approximately 22km long from Cape Hodgson in the north to Cape Beck in the south, and 16km wide from Row Nunataks in the west to Cape Spirit in the east, projecting through the ice shelf between Brown and White Islands. It forms a contrast to White Island, which is almost hidden by snow, because it is kept almost entirely snow-free due to its being sheltered from the prevailing wind by Minna Bluff. Its chief characteristic is the large extent of low land surrounding the group of old craters which rise to a height of 1041m at Mount Aurora
The island was named in 1902 by the British National Antarctic Expedition (Discovery Expedition, BrNAE), 1901-04, because of the black volcanic rocks on it. Not Schwarze Inseln (German) or Svart Oya (Norwegian).
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