In centuries past there was ample opportunity for the adventurer to leave his footprint on foreign shores. Faced with an island, the luxuriously bearded explorer simply swaggered up the beach, nailed his flag to a tree, claimed the territory for king, queen, emperor or tyrant, and named it a fter whatever took his fancy. Those days are long gone, though. By now, all the world's islands, down to the smallest rock and tide-washed sandbank, have surely succumbed to the cartographer's pen. Not so, apparently. In cartography, as in so much else, the Antarctic is the last frontier and the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) has identified an opportunity to create new demand for its charts by naming some islands in the Aitcho (ie HO) chain.
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