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)
Honkala Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Honkala Island (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:
An island in the Swain Group about 5 km north-east of Wilkes. The region was photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47) and by ANARE in 1956. Plotted from air photographs taken by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956). Included in a ground survey carried out in 1957 by C.R. Eklund. Named by USACAN after R.A. Honkala, a member of the 1957 Wilkes party.
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