SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Zykov Island

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

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

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Place ID: 16549
Name ID: 936

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:

Zykov Island (United States of America)
Zykova, ostrov (Russia)

Narrative

A small island about 1 km south of Haswell Island, between Buromskiy Island and Fulmar Island, off the coast of Queen Mary Land. Discovered and photographed by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956). Named after E. Zykov, navigator with the Soviet Expedition in 1957.

Named For

Location

Latitude:

66° 32' 16.6" S

-66.53794°

Accurate to 50m

Longitude:

93° 00' 09.3" E

93.00258°

Accurate to 50m

Altitude:

Not recorded

Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:

Satellite Image

Source Name:

Unknown

Source Identifier:

Satellite image ( Satellite Image Catalogue - Scene Id 10300100096D9000 not in the Satellite Image Catalogue. )

Source Scale:

1:1500

Source Institution:

Australian Antarctic Division

Source Person:

D.Smith

Source Publisher:

DigitalGlobe

Remote sensing:

WorldView-2 satellite image captured 6 February 2011

Comments

Map 1 in the management plan adopted in 2011 for Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 127 was used as a reference to identify the island in the satellite image.

Approval status

Status:

Official

Date approved:

11-Oct-1960

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