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)
Van Hulssen Islands (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Van Hulssen 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:
A group of ten small islands about 9 km north-west of Mawson. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). One of the islands was included in a triangulation survey by Robert Dovers in 1954.
Named after F.A. Van Hulssen, radio supervisor at Mawson in 1955.
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