This page presents the geographical name data for
Sack Island in Antarctica, as supplied by the US military intelligence in electronic format, including the geographic coordinates and place name in various forms, latin, roman and native characters, and its location in its respective country's administrative division
Feature Name
(see definition):
Sack Island
Feature Class
(see definition):
Island
Country Code
(see definition): AQ (Antarctica)
Feature ID
(see definition):
13126
Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds
(see definition):
66° 26' 00" S
Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds
(see definition):
110° 25' 00" E
Primary Latitude in decimal degrees
(see definition):
-66.4333333
Primary Longitude in decimal degrees
(see definition):
110.4166667
Elevation
(see definition):
No data
Decision Year
(see definition):
01/01/1963
Description
(see definition):
A rocky island, 0.4 mi long, lying 0.2 mi E of the S end of Holl Island, in the Windmill Islands. First mapped from aerial photographs taken by U.S. Navy (USN) OpHjp in February 1947. Named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Norman F. Sack who served as photographer's mate with the central task force of U.S. Navy (USN) OpHjp, 1946-47, and assisted U.S. Navy (USN) OpWml parties in obtaining photographic coverage of this area in January 1948.
Date Created
(see definition):
No data
Date Edited
(see definition):
No data
NOTE: The information regarding
Sack Island 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
Sack Island information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about
Sack Island should be addressed to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.