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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| Astrolabe Island (RUS) | 63° 17' 00.0" S | 58° 40' 00.0" W | Island |
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| Astrolabe Island (GBR) | 63° 19' 00.0" S | 58° 41' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 107586
Place ID: 589
rising to 560m in Bransfield Strait, off Trinity Peninsula, was charted and named Île de l'Astrolabe by FAE, 1837-40, after the expedition ship Astrolabe (d'Urville, 1838, map following p.1170). Astrolabe Island (BA chart 1238, 7.ix.1839; APC, 1955, p.4; BAS 250 sheet SP 21-22/13, 1-DOS 1974). Île Astrolabe (d'Urville, 1842, p.154). Isla de la Astrolabio (Spain. DH chart 458, 1861). Astrolabe Insel (Friederichsen, 1895, Tafel 7 facing p.304). Astrolab [sic]-Ön (Andersson, 1903, p.409). Astrolabe-Ön (Andersson, 1904b, p.70). Isla de Astrolabe (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904b, Tomo 1, end map). Astrolabe Eiland (Ruys, 1905, map following p.88). Isola Astrolabio (Duse, 1907, p.134). Isla Astrolabe (Riso Patron S., 1908, end map). Astrolabe Ö (HA chart, 1928). Astrolabe-Øen (Risting, 1929, p.57). Astrolabe-Öya (Risting, 1929, map p.51). Astrolabeöen (Aagaard, 1930, end map). The island was recharted by DI in 1930-31 (Carey and Nelson, 1931b). Astrolabe Islands [sic] (USAAF chart [LR-] 74, 1943). Isla Astrolabio (Chile. DNH chart L, 1947; Pierrou, 1970, p.173; IHA, 1974, p.34). Astrolabio (Chile. DNH chart 503, 1951). The island was photographed from the air and triangulated by FIDASE, 1956-57. Islote Astrolabio (Argentina. MM chart 124, 1957). Astrolabel [sic] Eiland (Knapp, 1958, p.568). Ostrov Astrolab (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). |
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| Astrolabe Island (USA) | 63° 17' 00.0" S | 58° 40' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 121980
Place ID: 589
Island 3 mi long, lying in Bransfield Strait 14 mi NW of Cape Ducorps, Trinity Peninsula. Discovered by the French expedition, 1837-40, under Capt. Jules Dumont d'Urville, and named by him for his chief expedition ship, the Astrolabe. |
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| Astrolabe, isla (ARG) | 63° 21' 00.0" S | 58° 35' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 100142
Place ID: 589
En estrecho Bransfield, península Trinidad. Fue cartografiada y nominada por la FAE en 1837-40 en recuerdo de la expedición del buque "ASTROLABE" de la expedición de d'Urville durante 1838. Publicado en carta 102 del año 1949. SHN carta H-713. |
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| Astrolabio, Isla (CHL) | 63° 19' 00.0" S | 58° 41' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 105129
Place ID: 589
Descubierta por la Expedición Antártica Francesa de 1837-1840, al mando de Dumont D'Urville, quien la llamó "Astrolabe" por el nombre de la nave insignia de la expedición. El nombre actual es una traducción al castellano del nombre original, para evitar confusión con el islote Astrolabe en el estrecho De Gerlache, y ha figurado en las cartas chilenas desde 1947. En algunas cartas de 1956 figuró con su nombre original. Isla de aproximadamente 3 millas de largo y 460 metros de elevación, situada en el estrecho Bransfield, a 20 millas al W del cabo Legoupil y a 16 millas al NE del cabo Roquemaurel, costa occidental de la península Tierra de O'Higgins. |
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| Morse Glacier (AUS) | 66° 16' 00.1" S | 130° 04' 59.9" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 589
Place ID: 9877
A glacier on the eastern side of Porpoise Bay on the Banzare Coast of Wilkes land, about 6 km SSW of Cape Morse. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump and named by USACAN after W.H. Morse, purser's mate on the brig Porpoise of the United States Exploring Expedition (1938-41) under Lieut. (later Rear Adm.) C. Wilkes. |
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