Name details

Buchanan Bay

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

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

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 111

Feature type: Bay

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 sheltered bay on the western side of the Mertz Glacier Tongue, on the coast of George V Land. Discovered in 1912 by AAE (1911-14) under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it after J Y Buchanan, a patron of the expedition and a former member of the Challenger Expedition (1872-1876).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
67° 08' 21.0" S
-67.13917°
Accurate to 150m
Longitude:
144° 49' 32.0" E
144.82556°
Accurate to 150m
Altitude:
0 m
Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:
Satellite Image
Source Name:
Landsat Image Mosaic Antarctica (LIMA)
Source Identifier:
E127_CIR_432_1X
Source Scale:
1:25000
Source Institution:
USGS
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
Unknown

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