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)
Breadloaf Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Breadloaf 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, shaped like a loaf of bread, in the Larsemann Hills, about 0.7 km west of Easther Island and about 6.3 km WNW of Law Base. Plotted by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition 1936-37.
Named by the 1986-87 Larsemann Hills Field Party. Descriptive as it is shaped like a loaf of bread
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