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Antarctica ID: | 3077 |
Name: | Conway Island |
Class: | Island |
Latitude: | -66.1333333 |
Longitude: | -65.4666667 |
Description: | Island lying in Holtedahl Bay to the W of Lens Peak, off the W coast of Graham Land. Photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1956-57, and mapped from these photos by the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). Named by the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee (UK-APC) in 1959 for William M. Conway, First Baron of Allington (1856-1937), English mountaineer and pioneer of polar skiing during his crossing of Vestspitsbergen in 1896. |
BGN: | 01-JAN-71 |
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