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)
Magnetic Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Magnetic 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:
A small island situated in the north-east part of Prydz Bay about 5 km from the coast of Vestfold Hills and about 5 km north-west of Davis. Charted from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). Visited by an ANARE party led by Phillip Law on 3 March, 1954. Named because magnetic observations taken by J. Brooks showed the declination to be anomalous.
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