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Chatos Islands

group of small islands in Antarctica

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ13631947 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Chatos Islands are a group of small islands and rocks lying south of Cape Adriasola, Adelaide Island. The descriptive name Islotes Chatos (flat islands) was given by the Argentine Antarctic Expedition of 1952–53.

See also

List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands

References

This article incorporates public domain material from "Chatos Islands". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.

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“Chatos Islands” enters the record as group of small islands in Antarctica. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Chatos, Islands and group can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1952—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Chatos, Islands and group.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q13631947. Authority coordinates are -67.650, -69.167. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1952.

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This entry incorporates text from “Chatos Islands” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.