SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Hippo Island

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

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

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Place ID: 6405
Name ID: 851

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:

Hippo Island (Russia)
Hippo Island (United States of America)

Narrative

A small, steep, rocky island about 1 km long and about 75 m high, rising above the Shackleton Ice Shelf, about 3 km north of Delay Point, Queen Mary Land. Discovered and named by the Western Base Party of AAE (1911-14). So named because it is shaped like a hippopotamus.

Named For

Location

Latitude:

66° 25' 09.0" S

-66.41917°

Accurate to 200m

Longitude:

98° 10' 36.0" E

98.17667°

Accurate to 200m

Altitude:

Not recorded

Unknown precision

Images

©Dr. ANdrew Watson 1912

Catalogue id: IA16638
Caption: Hippo Island from the north. Delay Point, on the coast of the mainland, is seen in the distance on the left.
Photographer: Watson, Andrew

Map

Source

Location Method:

Satellite Image

Source Name:

LIMA - Landsat Image Mosaic Antarctica

Source Identifier:

Satellite image ( Satellite Image Catalogue - Scene Id E164_RGB_321_1X not in the Satellite Image Catalogue. )

Source Scale:

1:25000

Source Institution:

Australian Antarctic Division

Source Person:

Brolsma

Source Publisher:

USGS - United States Geological Survey

Remote sensing:

Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:

Official

Date approved:

Unknown

Related information

Biodiversity
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Place names
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