Name details

Dart Moraine

Dart Moraine (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Dart Moraine  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 1326

Feature type: Moraine

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

An area of chocolate brown moraine, extending for about 11 km south of Radok Lake and Pagodroma Gorge and west of Flagstone Bench, at the eastern end of the Aramis Range, Prince Charles Mountains. Photographed by ANARE in 1956. This moraine was crossed many times in January-February 1969 by Jack Dart, radio officer with the ANARE party camped at Radok Lake on his way to the aircraft landing strip used to supply the camp.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
70° 53' 36.0" S
-70.89333°
Accurate to 50m
Longitude:
68° 02' 03.0" E
68.03417°
Accurate to 50m
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Georeferenced Satellite Image
Source Name:
SPOT 5 11 January 2004
Source Identifier:
Satellite image ( Satellite Image Catalogue - Scene Id sp5xi10_265498_110104_ortho.bil not in the Satellite Image Catalogue. )
Source Scale:
1:25000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
CNES
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
18-May-1971

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