Name details

Club Lake

Club Lake (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Club Lake  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 1272

Feature type: Water body

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

A salt-water lake about 11 km ENE of Davis station in the Vestfold Hills. The shape resembles a club which is elongated north-east to south-west. It is about 3.4 km long and has a maximum width of 0.5 km. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). First visited by an ANARE party led by Phillip Law in 1955.

Named For

descriptive

Location

Latitude:
68° 33' 21.6" S
-68.55600°
Accurate to 30m
Longitude:
78° 14' 06.0" E
78.23500°
Accurate to 30m
Altitude:
-38.1 m
Accurate to 5m

Images


©Henk Brolsma 2003
Catalogue id
IA16545
Caption
View is looking south east with Club Lake being the large lake in the middle left of the photo. The ice covered bay in the bottom right of the photo is Shirokaya Bay.
Photographer
Brolsma, Henk

Map

Source

Location Method:
Topographic data
Source Name:
Vestfold Hills Topographic GIS Dataset
Source Identifier:
vest_hills_gis
Source Scale:
1:5000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
Australian Antarctic Division
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Metadata for coordinates and origin of topographic data.

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
29-Apr-1958

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