SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Donskiye Islands

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

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

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Place ID: 3781
Name ID: 830

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:

Donskie, ostrova (Russia)

Narrative

A group of islands, including Warriner Island and Redfearn Island, off Broad Peninsula, Vestfold Hills. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Mulvikholmane (The Mule Bay Islets) by Norwegian cartographers. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), and Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956 and ANARE in 1957 and 1958.

Named For

Named Ostrova Donskiye (Don Islands) by the Soviet Expedition.

Location

Latitude:

68° 36' 28.8" S

-68.60800°

Accurate to 30m

Longitude:

77° 53' 37.3" E

77.89369°

Accurate to 30m

Altitude:

51.5 m

Accurate to 5m

Images

©Nathan Saunders 2009

Catalogue id: IA21884
Caption: Donskiye Islands, Vestfold Hills. Taken from helicopter at height of 2500 feet. Looking East.
Photographer: Saunders, Nathan

Map

Source

Location Method:

Topographic data

Source Name:

Vestfold Hills Topographic GIS Dataset

Source Identifier:

vest_hills_gis

Source Scale:

1:5000

Source Institution:

Australian Antarctic Division

Source Person:

Brolsma

Source Publisher:

Australian Antarctic Division

Remote sensing:

Not Applicable

Comments

Metadata for coordinates and origin of topographic data.

Approval status

Status:

Official

Date approved:

27-Nov-1973

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