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personnel who roughly surveyed the island in 1927. The island was also surveyed by Argentine expeditions in 1942, 1943 and 1948. The Argentines call it
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is an island, 1.6 kilometres (1 mi) long, which marks the southwestern extremity of the
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Gamma Island (Greenland)
Gamma Island, Bermuda


Gamma Island is located in Antarctica
Antarctica
64°20′S 63°0′W / 64.333°S 63.000°W / -64.333; -63.000
Palmer Archipelago
Antarctic Treaty System
Melchior Islands
Palmer Archipelago
French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05
Jean-Baptiste Charcot
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Discovery Investigations
Melchior Base
List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
"Gamma Island"
Geographic Names Information System
United States Geological Survey
United States Department of the Interior
public domain material
"Gamma Island"
Geographic Names Information System
United States Geological Survey
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Palmer Archipelago
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expanding it
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