Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Jesson Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Jesson 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 small island in the Larsemann Hills south of McLeod Island, with a conical peak and a beach running E-W along its northern shore.
Named after Eric Jesson, Geophysicist at Mawson in 1957, who carried out the first geomagnetic observations in the Larsemann Hills in February, 1958.
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