Caughley Beach (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Caughley Beach (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Beach (7)
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:
The northernmost beach on the ice-free coast-line of Cape Bird. Behind it there is an ice-covered end-moraine of the Mt Bird ice cap which here descends to sea-level. The northernmost of the three Adelie Penguin rookeries in the Cape Bird district is situated on the beach and on the slopes of the end-moraine. A survey station at the southern end of the end-moraine was established by the USNHO surveyors in 1956. It was visited in January 1959 an marked by a prominent rock cairn, by a party from the NZGSAE, 1958-59. Named by this party for Graeme Caughley, biologist and member of the party who visited Cape Bird.
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