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)
Kring Islands (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Kring Islands (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Island
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:
Two islands and a number of rocks in the western part of Long Sound between Broka Island and Law Promontory. ANARE air photography has shown the feature to be more than one island.
Mapped as one island by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Kringla (The Ring).
No images of this place could be found.
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