Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| Corner Island (GBR) | 65° 15' 00.0" S | 64° 15' 00.0" W | Corner |
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Name ID: 108305
Place ID: 2989
SE end of Meek Channel, Argentine Islands (q.v.), Graham Coast, was charted by BGLE in 1935 as two islands forming a rough L-shape and named descriptively Corner Islands (Rymill, 1938b; BA chart 3213, 7.ii.1947; APC, 1955, p.7). Islas de Corner (Rymill and others, 1943, map facing p.72). Archîpel Corner (Rouch, 1944, map p.11). Isla Corner (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.291). Islas Corner (Argentina. MM, 1957b, p.9; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.84). Islotes del Rincón [=corner islets] (Argentina. MM, 1957b, p.9). Islas del Rincón (Argentina. MM, 1960a, p.10; Pierrou, 1970, p.624). The feature was recharted as one island by an RN Hydrographic Survey Unit from HMS Protector in 1964-65. Corner Island (BA chart 3213, 10.viii.1973; APC, 1980, p.3). |
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| Corner Island (USA) | 65° 15' 00.0" S | 64° 14' 00.0" W | Corner |
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Name ID: 123819
Place ID: 2989
A small island in the form of a crude right angle, lying 0.1 mi NE of Galindez Island in the Argentine Islands, Wilhelm Archipelago. Charted and named in 1935 by the BGLE under John Rymill. |
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| Corner, Islas (CHL) | 65° 15' 00.0" S | 64° 14' 00.0" W | Corner |
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Name ID: 105366
Place ID: 2989
Fueron cartografiadas en 1935 por la Expedición Antártica Británica de 1934-1937, al mando de John Rymill, quien le dio este nombre, seguramente porque la costa N de ambas islas forma una esquina (Corner) o ángulo de unos 60 grados. En una publicación chilena de 1962 figuró como isla Corner, sólo la más occidental de ambas. Dos islas pequeñas, apenas separadas por una angostura de 10 metros, ubicadas entre isla Galindez e isla Uruguay, en las islas Argentine, frente a la costa occidental de la península Tierra de O'Higgins. |
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