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)
Burke Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Burke Island (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Island (5)
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:
An ice-covered island about 16 mi long and 6 mi wide, lying 37 mi SW of Cape Waite, King Peninsula, in the Amundsen Sea. Delineated from aerial photographs taken by USN Squadron VX-6 in January 1960. Named by US-ACAN for Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, USN, Chief of Naval Operations during USN Deep Freeze operations of 1956-61.
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