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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| Vedel Islands (GBR) | 65° 07' 00.0" S | 64° 15' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 111744
Place ID: 15357
between Petermann Island and Myriad Islands, and S of Dannebrog Islands (q.v.), Wilhelm Archipelago, were roughly charted by BeAE, 12 February 1898, when the name Île Vedel was applied to the largest island in the group (the feature earlier called Friedburg Insel, q.v.), probably after a supporter of the expedition (Lecointe, map, 1899; 1900b, map facing p.132); further charted by FAE, 1903-05, in 1904 and by FAE, 1908-10, in 1909. Îles de Myre de Vilers [sic], Îlots Le Myre de Vilers, after C. Lemire de Villers (Port Lemire de Villers, q.v.) (Charcot, 1910, photograph p.80 and p.248). Islas Le Mayre [sic] de Villers (Gourdon, [1910], p.137). Myre de Vilers Islets, Le-Myre-de-Vilers Islands (Charcot, [1911b], p.209, 239). Îles Wedel [sic] (Bongrain, 1914, vue 16 following p.60). Vedel Islets (BA, 1916, p.406; chart 3196, 12.xi.1948; APC, 1955, p.21). Weddell [sic] Islets (BA, 1930, p.85). Wedel [sic] Islands (Rymill, 1938a, map facing p.400). Vedel Islands (USHO, 1943, p.137; APC, 1959a, p.12; DOS 610 sheet W 65 64, 1959). Islas Vedel (Argentina. IGM map, 1946). Islas Wedel [sic] (Chile. DNH chart LII, 1947). Islotes Vedel (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.286; Pierrou, 1970, p.708; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.291). Îles Vedel, as rejected form (USBGN, 1951, p.51). The islands were photographed from the air by FIDASE in 1956. Vadel [sic] Islands, in error (BA chart 3572, 29.xi.1974). |
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| Vedel Islands (USA) | 65° 07' 00.0" S | 64° 15' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 133168
Place ID: 15357
Group of small islands lying 2 mi W of Hovgaard Island in the Wilhelm Archipelago. The largest island of this group was discovered in 1898 and given the name Vedel by the BelgAE under Gerlache. The FrAE under Charcot charted the remaining islands in 1904, and again in 1909, when the name was extended to include the entire group. |
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| Vedel, islotes (ARG) | 65° 07' 00.0" S | 64° 15' 00.0" W | Island |
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| Vedel, Islotes (CHL) | 65° 08' 00.0" S | 64° 15' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 106425
Place ID: 15357
El mayor de este grupo de islotes fue descubierto en 1898 y le dio el nombre de Vedel la Expedición Belga al mando del teniente Adrien de Gerlache, el Dr. Jean B. Charcot cartografió el resto de los islotes en 1904, y nuevamente en 1909, fue entonces cuando extendió el nombre de Vedel al grupo. Grupo de islotes en la isla Dannebrog situada a 3 millas al W de la isla Hovgaard en la costa W de la península Tierra de O'Higgins. |
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