Name details

Cape Toutcher

Toutcher, Cape (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Cape Toutcher  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 2731

Feature type: Cape

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer.

Narrative

A cape on the Western Coast of Macquarie Island. Named for Norman C Toutcher, First Officer of the Australian Antarctic Expedition's ship SY Aurora in 1911 and 1912. The name first appears on the map prepared by the AAE surveyor Leslie Russel Blake in 1914.

Named For

Norman C Toutcher, First Officer of the Australian Antarctic Expedition's ship SY Aurora in 1911 and 1912.

Location

Latitude:
54° 41' 13.4" S
-54.68705°
Accurate to 30m
Longitude:
158° 48' 05.4" E
158.80151°
Accurate to 30m
Altitude:
0 m
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Topographic data
Source Name:
Macquarie Island Vegetation and Drainage Structure Data Set,Mac Island Contours from AIRSAR Aug 2000
Source Identifier:
MIvegmap,macca_contour_gis
Source Scale:
1:25000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
Australian Antarctic Division
Remote sensing:
NASA AIRSAR DEM Metadata record - [macca_dem_gis] Macquarie Island Topopoly GIS Dataset. [macca_topopoly_gis]

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
Unknown

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