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Feature Name (see definition): Consort Islands Feature Class (see definition): Island Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica) Feature ID (see definition): 3058 Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 67° 52' 00" S Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 068° 42' 00" W Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -67.8666667 Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -68.7 Elevation (see definition): No data Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1963 Description (see definition): Two small islands in Marguerite Bay, lying 0.5 mi NE of Emperor Island in the Dion Islands. The Dion Islands were first sighted and roughly charted in 1909 by the French Antarctic Expedition (FrAE). Consort Islands were surveyed in 1948 by the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) and so named by the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee (UK-APC) because of their association with Emperor Island. Date Created (see definition): No data Date Edited (see definition): No data NOTE: The information regarding Consort Islands in Antarctica on this page is published from the data supplied by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a member of the Intelligence community of the Antarctica, and a Department of Defense (DoD) Combat Support Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Consort Islands information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Consort Islands should be addressed to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
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