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)
Vollmer Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Vollmer Island (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:
An ice-covered island approximately 20km east to west lying along the edge of Sulzberger Ice Shelf, 12.9km northwest of Cronenwett Island.
It appears that this feature was first observed and roughly mapped from aerial photographs taken by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (ByrdAE), 1928-30. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Lieutenant T.H. Vollmer, U.S. Navy (USN), engineering officer aboard USS Glacier along this coast, 1961-62.
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