SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Babushkin Island

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

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

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Place ID: 728
Name ID: 953

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:

Babushkin Island (United States of America)
Babushkina, ostrov (Russia)

Narrative

An Island about 6.5 km NNW of Archer Point, Oates Land. Discovered by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1958. Plotted from a running survey from the MV Magga Dan in February 1959. Named after the Soviet Polar aviator, M.S. Babushkin.

Named For

Soviet Polar aviator, M.S. Babushkin

Location

Latitude:

69° 05' 52.0" S

-69.09778°

Accurate to 150m

Longitude:

157° 34' 13.0" E

157.57028°

Accurate to 150m

Altitude:

Not recorded

Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:

Satellite Image

Source Name:

Landsat Image Mosaic Antarctica (LIMA)

Source Identifier:

LIMA E103_CIR_432_1X

Source Scale:

1:10000

Source Institution:

Australian Antarctic Division

Source Person:

Brolsma

Source Publisher:

United States Geological Survey (USGS)

Remote sensing:

Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:

Official

Date approved:

11-Oct-1960

Related information

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