Name details

Manning Island

Manning Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Manning Island  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 1001

Feature type: Island

Origin

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

Narrative

An island about 1.9 km north of Broknes Peninsula in the Larsemann Hills. Plotted from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition 1936-37 and called Vikxy (Bay Island) by Norwegian cartographers.

Named For

Named after John Manning, surveyor at Mawson in 1967, senior surveyor in the Prince Charles Mountains Surveys of 1968-69 and 1971-72. He carried out a survey traverse from Sandefjord Bay to Davis in 1968-69.

Location

Latitude:
69° 21' 18.0" S
-69.35500°
Accurate to 25m
Longitude:
76° 20' 00.0" E
76.33333°
Accurate to 25m
Altitude:
63 m
Accurate to 10m

Images


©Rick Oates 2009
Catalogue id
IA21803
Caption
Manning Island, Larsemann Hills. Taken from helicopter at height of 1800 feet. Looking Southeast.
Photographer
Oates, Rick

Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Larsemann Hills 1:25000 Topographic GIS Dataset
Source Identifier:
Lars25K
Source Scale:
1:25000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
Australian Antarctic Division
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
29-Sep-1988

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