Name details

Buckles Bay

Buckles Bay (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Buckles Bay  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 56

Feature type: Bay

Origin

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

Narrative

The bay on the eastern side of the isthmus near the Station on Macquarie Island.

Named For

On an early map of the Island (Langdon 1822) there appears the name Buckles, Bagster and Buchanan Bay. The origin has not been traced and it may be doubted whether it could ever have been used in this form. The shortened form used on the Admiralty Chart 1917 was accepted by Mawson as being more distinctive than the name "North-East Bay" used by Blake on a map in 1914. On an early map of the Island (Langdon 1822) there appears the name Buckles, Bagster and Buchanan Bay.

Location

Latitude:
54° 30' 03.3" S
-54.50092°
Accurate to 30m
Longitude:
158° 56' 21.0" E
158.93917°
Accurate to 30m
Altitude:
0 m
Accurate to 5m

Images


©DigitalGlobe 2005
Catalogue id
IA16560
Caption
satellite image of Buckles Bay
Photographer
DigitalGlobe

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 - Metadata_ID [macca_dem_gis]

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
11-Aug-1955

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