Name details

Bellafronto Bight

Bellafronto Bight (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Bellafronto Bight  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 112767

Feature type: Bight (3)

Origin

This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

An ice-filled embayment with two lobes, extending for approximately 10.2km from the north at Swyers Point at the base of the west side of Brown Peninsula and Hayn Island in the south and the low northwest foot of Mount Discovery, on Scott Coast, Victoria Land. Feature shown on: NZ AntTopo50-MG11

Named For

Named by United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (1999) after Lieutenant Robert L. Bellafronto, Civil Engineer Corps (CEC), U.S. Navy, a public works officer at McMurdo Station in U.S. Navy (USN) Operation Deep Freeze (OpDFrz) 1977 and 1978.

Location

Latitude:
78° 13' 00.0" S
-78.21667°
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Longitude:
165° 06' 00.0" E
165.10000°
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Altitude:
0 m
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
0.5m Antarctic Imagery Mosaic, DigitalGlobe Inc 2018
Source Identifier:
10300100088D8300
Source Scale:
1:1889.76
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Polar Geospatial Center
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
4-Nov-1999

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