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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| Refuge Islands (GBR) | 68° 21' 00.0" S | 67° 10' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 110827
Place ID: 11991
forming N entrance point of Rymill Bay, Fallières Coast, were surveyed and named by BGLE in 1936, when the islands were used as a depot site on sledge journeys to George VI Sound (Rymill, 1938a, map facing p.432; DCS 701 sheet G, 1950; APC, 1959a, p.10; BA chart 3571, 14.vii.1961; DOS 610 sheet W 68 66, 1963). Isla Refuge, referring to the largest island (Rymill and others, 1943, map facing p.272). Refugio (Vila Labra, 1947, map p.203). Isla Refujio (Chile. IGM map, 1947). Islas Refugio (Chile. DNH chart LIII, 1947). Refuge Islets (BA chart 3196, 12.xi.1948; APC, 1955, p.17; DCS 601 sheet 68 66, 1955). The islands were resurveyed by FIDS from "Stonington Island", 1948-49. Refuge-Øya (Rønne, 1950b, p.116). Refuge Island, referring to the largest island (Nichols, 1953, p.18). Islotes Refugio (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.333; Pierrou, 1970, p.619; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.240). An Argentine refuge hut was established by personnel from "San Martín Station" on the largest of the islands, 28 April 1953, and called "Plumerillo" after the camp where Gen. J. San Martín organized the Army of the Andes in the Argentine War of Independence. Refuge Eilanden (Knapp, 1958, p.583). "Refugio de Plumerillo" (Pierrou, 1970, p.338). |
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| Refuge Islands (USA) | 68° 21' 00.0" S | 67° 10' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 130647
Place ID: 11991
Small group of islands lying 1 mi from the ice cliffs at the SW side of Red Rock Ridge, off the W coast of Graham Land. Discovered and named by the BGLE under Rymill, 1934-37, who used these islands as a depot for sledge journeys S from the southern base in the Debenham Islands. |
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| Refugio, islotes (ARG) | 68° 21' 00.0" S | 67° 10' 00.0" W | Island |
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| Refugio, Islotes (CHL) | 68° 22' 00.0" S | 67° 10' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 106152
Place ID: 11991
La denominación fue dada por John Rymill, entre los años 1934-1937, cuando usó estos islotes como estación para los viajes en trineo hacia el S. Forman un grupo de islotes de piedra, descubierta en verano, situados a 4,5 millas al S de morro Roca Roja en la costa W de la península Tierra de O'Higgins. |
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