SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Mariner Islands

Mariner Islands (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Mariner Islands (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 9003
Name ID: 781

Feature type: Island

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Mariner Islands (Russia)
Mariner Islands (United States of America)

Narrative

A group of islands in the north-east part of the Bunger Hills, just north of Booth Peninsula. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump and named by USACAN after the Martin Mariner aircraft used on Operation Highjump.

Named For

Location

Latitude:

66° 03' 04.7" S

-66.05131°

Accurate to 200m

Longitude:

101° 10' 18.7" E

101.17186°

Accurate to 200m

Altitude:

Not recorded

Unknown precision

Images

©AAD Non-commercial use only 2000

Catalogue id: IA47444
Caption: Landsat LIMA image compiled from images E164_RGB_321_1X and E165_RGB_321_1X.
Photographer: Unknown

Map

Source

Location Method:

Satellite Image

Source Name:

LIMA

Source Identifier:

Satellite image ( Satellite Image Catalogue - Scene Id E165_RGB_321_1x not in the Satellite Image Catalogue. )

Source Scale:

1:50000

Source Institution:

Australian Antarctic Division

Source Person:

Brolsma

Source Publisher:

USGS

Remote sensing:

Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:

Official

Date approved:

22-Oct-1968

Related information

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