Brockhamp Islands

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

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

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Place ID: 1880
Name ID: 122957

Feature type: Island (5)

Origin

This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

Two small islands in Laubeuf Fjord, lying 3 mi SW of Mothes Point, Adelaide Island. Mapped by the FIDS from RARE air photos, 1947-48, and FIDS surveys, 1948-50. Named by UK-APC for Bernhard Brockhamp, German glaciologist who, with H. Mothes, made the first seismic soundings of a glacier, in Austria in 1926.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
67° 17' 00.0" S
-67.28333°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
67° 56' 00.0" W
-67.93333°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Unknown
Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Unknown
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
1-Jan-1965

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