Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Aviation Islands (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Aviation Islands (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Island
This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A group of small rocky islands 5km north of Cape Kinsey, north of the Goodman Hills at Davies Bay Hills. Feature depicted on: NZMS 166 SR57-58/5 (Jan 1967).
Mapped by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (SovAE), 1958, and named Ostrova Polyarnoy Aviatsii (Polar Aviation Islands). Photographed from the air on 20th February, 1969 by Phillip Law, leader of the ANAR Expedition, on the MV Magga Dan. Law and a party from the MV Magga Dan landed on the southernmost island on 6 March, 1961. The feature is the site of an adélie penguin rookery.
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