Name details

Cleft Island

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

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

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 1061

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

A small island to the north of the Bølingen Islands in the southern part of the Prydz Bay, about 5 km ESE of Lichen Island. The island is split by a deep channel about six metres wide. The island was plotted from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936) and called Lørten by Norwegian cartographers. The first landing was made on the island by an ANARE party from the MV Nella Dan led by Phillip Law on 18 February 1966.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
69° 21' 47.8" S
-69.36328°
Accurate to 200m
Longitude:
75° 40' 11.5" E
75.66986°
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:
Metadata ( E152_RGB_321_1X ***)
Source Scale:
1:30000
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:
10-Aug-1966

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