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)
Amsler Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Amsler Island (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Island (5)
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
An island of irregular shape, 1 mile long, with Norsel Point at the narrow W extremity. The island lies between Loudwater Cove and Arthur Harbor, off the southern end of Anvers Island, Palmer Archipelago. This feature was mapped as a point of land from Anvers Island for decades because Marr Ice Piedmont covered its eastern part. A rapid recession of the Marr Ice Piedmont in 2005 created an eastern channel several hundred meters wide revealing the island. The island was named by US-ACAN in 2007 after Charles W. Amsler and Margaret Amsler, husband and wife USAP marine biologists in the Anvers Island area for three decades from 1979 (APC, 2008).
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