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)
Wideopen Islands (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Wideopen Islands (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:
Group of islands and rocks lying 7 mi N of Boreal Point, JoinviIle Island. Roughly surveyed from a distance by the FIDS in 1953-54. So named by UK-APC in 1958 because of their exposed, isolated position on the S side of Bransfield Strait.
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