Name details

Dixson Island

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

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

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 1041

Feature type: Island

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 ice-covered rock mass on the western side of the mouth of the Ninnis Glacier on the coast of George V Land. The feature is about 19 km long and 9 km wide, rising to about 335 m. Discovered in 1912 by AAE (1911-14) under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it after Sir Hugh Dixson of Sydney, a patron of the expedition.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
68° 07' 10.0" S
-68.11944°
Accurate to 200m
Longitude:
146° 58' 17.0" E
146.97139°
Accurate to 200m
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:
Satellite Image
Source Name:
LIMA - Landsat Image Mosaic Antarctica
Source Identifier:
Satellite image ( Satellite Image Catalogue - Scene Id E127_RGB_321_1X not in the Satellite Image Catalogue. )
Source Scale:
1:50000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
USGS - United States Geological Survey
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
Unknown

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