Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
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 |
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| Cheesman Island (RUS) | 67° 29' 00.0" S | 74° 58' 00.0" W | Island |
| Name ID: 117430 Place ID: 2578 | |||
| Cheesman Island (GBR) | 69° 44' 00.0" S | 75° 05' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 108176
Place ID: 2578
off N coast of Charcot Island, was photographed from the air and roughly mapped by Wilkins on 29 December 1929; photographed again from the air on USN Operation "Highjump", 1946-47; following map compilation from air photographs by FIDS in 1959, named after Flight-Lieut. Silas Alward Cheesman, RCAF (1900-58), of St John, NB, and Thunder Bay, Ont., Canadian pilot on Wilkins' 1929 flight and on Wilkins' 1937-38 air expedition over the Beaufort Sea in search of six missing Soviet airmen ([in 69 31'S 74 58'W] APC, 1961, p.2; USHO chart 6638, 1962; Searle, 1963, end map; [co-ordinates corrected from USLANDSAT imagery of February 1975] APC, 1977, p.8). Ostrov Chisman (Soviet Union. AA, 1966, Pl. 24). |
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| Cheesman Island (USA) | 69° 44' 00.0" S | 75° 05' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 123498
Place ID: 2578
Small rocky island off the N coast of Charcot Island, 1 mi N of Mount Martine. First seen and photographed from the air in 1929 by Sir Hubert Wilkins, who roughly positioned it. Remapped from air photos taken by the USN Operation HighJump, 1946-47, by Searle of the FIDS in 1960. The name was suggested by the US-ACAN in 1950 for S.A. Cheesman, pilot on Wilkins' 1929 flight. |
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