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)
Megaw Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Megaw 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:
The easternmost of the Bennett Islands in Hanusse Bay. Mapped from air photos taken by RARE (1947-48) and FIDASE (1956-57). Named by UK-APC for Helen Dick Megaw, British physicist who in 1934 made accurate measurements of the cell dimensions of ice.
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