SCAR Gazetteer Information: Each place can have one or more entries in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer, dependant on its origin. By viewing an individual entry, you may see multiple references to the same place. SCAR uses a more general feature type coding, so each place will, in general, have multiple feature types.

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Name Latitude Longitude Feature Type
Zykov Island (AUS) 66° 32' 16.6" S 93° 00' 09.3" E Island
Name ID: 936 Place ID: 16549

A small island about 1 km south of Haswell Island, between Buromskiy Island and Fulmar Island, off the coast of Queen Mary Land. Discovered and photographed by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956). Named after E. Zykov, navigator with the Soviet Expedition in 1957.

Zykov Island (USA) 66° 32' 00.0" S 93° 01' 00.0" E Island
Name ID: 134002 Place ID: 16549

Small island lying between Fulmar Island and Buromskiy Island in the Haswell Islands. Discovered and first mapped by the AAE under Mawson, 1911-14. Remapped by the Soviet expedition of 1956, which named it for Ye. Zykov, a student navigator who lost his life in the Antarctic in 1957.

Zykova, ostrov (RUS) 66° 32' 00.0" S 93° 01' 00.0" E Island
Name ID: 121527 Place ID: 16549

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