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)
Aagaard Islands (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Aagaard 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 or more small islands, 1-3 km west of Proclamation Island, Enderby Land. Discovered on 13 January, 1930, by BANZARE (1929-31) under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named them after Bjarne Aagaard, Norwegian Antarctic historian.
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