Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Fisher Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Fisher 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 crescent shaped island west of Broknes Peninsula in the Larsemann Hills. Plotted from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition 1936-37 and called Sigdxy by Norwegian cartographers.
Named after M M Fisher, Surveyor at Mawson in 1957, who carried out the first astrofix in the Larsemann Hills near the western end of this island during the period 12-14 August 1957.
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