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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| Paulet Island (RUS) | 63° 34' 00.0" S | 55° 46' 00.0" W | Island |
| Name ID: 119878 Place ID: 10969 | |||
| Paulet Island (GBR) | 63° 35' 00.0" S | 55° 46' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 110527
Place ID: 10969
rising to 355m SE of Dundee Island, was charted by Ross, 30 December 1842, and named after his friend and brother officer Capt. (later Adm.) Lord George Paulet, RN (1803-79) (BA chart 1238, 1844; Ross, 1847a, p.328; [in 63°36'S 55°56'W] BA chart 3205, 25.iii.1937; [co-ordinates corrected] APC, 1955, p.16; BAS 250 sheet SP 21-22/14 (Ext.), 1-DOS 1973). Paulet-Eiland (Ross, 1847b, p.382). IÎle Paulet (Vincendon-Dumoulin, 1847, Pl.43). Paulet Ø (Larsen, 1894a, p.131). Paulet Insel (Friederichsen, 1895, Tafel 7 facing p.304). Following the loss of the SwAE ship Antarctic (Kapt. C.A. Larsen) in the pack ice of Erebus and Terror Gulf in February 1903, the crew reached Paulet Island and built a stone hut which they occupied from 28 February until 31 October 1903. Øen Paulet (Larsen, 1904, p.84). Paulet-Øen (Nordenskjöld, 1904b, p.174). Isla Paulet (Nordenskjöld, 1904c, lower map facing p.32; Pierrou, 1970, p.579; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.221). Isola Paulet (Faustini, 1904, p.6). Paulet-Ön (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904a, Del. 1, end map). Isla de Poulet [sic] (Nordenskjöld, 1904c, p.31). Poulet Island (Irízar, 1904, p.590). Paulet Inlet [sic], in error (Sobral, 1904, p.104). Fauletinsel [sic], Paulet (Nordenskjöld, 1911b, p.29, 186). Paulet-Sziget (Shackleton, [1925], p.50). Paulet Ö (HA chart, 1928). Paulet Öya (Risting, 1929, map p.51). Pauletöen, Pauletøya (Aagaard, 1930, end map; 1944, p. 32). The island was visited and surveyed by FIDS from "Hope Bay" in January 1947; further surveyed from a distance by FIDS in December 1953 and photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57. Ostrov Pauletv (Bártl, 1958, map facing p.144). Ostrov Pole (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). A landing was made on the island by FIDS from Shackleton, 18-19 January 1961, when a trigonometric station was occupied. Ostrov Polet (Soviet Union. AA, 1966, Pl.24). |
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| Paulet Island (USA) | 63° 35' 00.0" S | 55° 47' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 129916
Place ID: 10969
Circular island about 1 mi in diameter, lying 3 mi SE of Dundee Island, off the NE end of Antarctic Peninsula. Discovered by a British expedition under Ross, 1839-43, and named by him for Capt. the Right Honorable Lord George Paulet, RN. |
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| Paulet, isla (ARG) | 63° 35' 00.0" S | 55° 46' 00.0" W | Island |
| Name ID: 101801 Place ID: 10969 | |||
| Paulet, Isla (CHL) | 63° 34' 00.0" S | 55° 52' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 106061
Place ID: 10969
Descubierta por la Expedición Inglesa al mando del capitán James Clark Ross, 1839-1843 y denominada así por el capitán Lord George Paulet. Isla circular de 5 cables de diámetro, situada a 3 millas al SE de la isla Dundee. La isla presenta su cima semejante a un cráter con 353 metros de altura, es de origen volcánico. De color oscuro, por estar libre de hielos, sus laderas son de piedra desnuda y se elevan abruptas desde el mar. |
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