This page presents the geographical name data for Maipo 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): Maipo Island
Feature Class (see definition): Island
Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)
Feature ID (see definition): 9307
Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition):
64° 25' 00" S
Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition):
062° 17' 00" W
Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -64.4166667
Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -62.2833333
Elevation (see definition): No data
Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1965
Description (see definition): A low, snow-covered island lying at the entrance to Buls Bay, eastern Brabant Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. The island was first roughly charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition (BelgAE), 1897-99. The name appears on a 1947 Chilean government chart and commemorates the work of the Maipo, an oil tanker which participated in several Chilean Antarctic expeditions during the 1940s and 1950s.
Date Created (see definition): No data
Date Edited (see definition): No data