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)
Zolotov Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Zolotov 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 off Mule Peninsula in the southern part of the Vestfold Hills, about 1 km south of Hawker Island. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956 and ANARE in 1957 and 1958. Named Ostrov Zolotova (Zolotov Island) by the Soviet Expedition after A.H. Zolotov, hydrologist, who died in Antarctica.
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