Daniel Island

Daniel Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Daniel Island  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 3313
Name ID: 835

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:

Narrative

A small island off the southern end of Honkala Island in the Swain Group, Windmill Islands. The region was photographed by U S N Operation Highjump (1946-47), ANARE (1956) and the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956). It was included in a survey of the islands north of Wilkes carried out by C R Eklund, scientific leader at Wilkes in 1958. Named by USACAN.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
66° 14' 00.0" S
-66.23331°
Accurate to 30m
Longitude:
110° 35' 39.8" E
110.59439°
Accurate to 30m
Altitude:
8 m
Accurate to 5m

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:
Topographic data
Source Name:
Windmill Islands 1:50000 GIS Dataset
Source Identifier:
Wind50K
Source Scale:
1:5000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
Australian Antarctic Division
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
Unknown

Related information

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