Name details

Couzens Bay

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

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

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 113064

Feature type: Bay (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 embayment of the Ross Ice Shelf south of Cape Selbourne, between Senia Point and Cape Goldschmidt and approximately 24.5km deep, and filled with 50-120m of ice ASL.

Named For

Named by the Northern Party of the New Zealand Geological and Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE), 1960-61, for Lieutenant Thomas Couzens, RNZAC, who lost his life in a crevasse accident in the Antarctic on 19 November 1959.

Location

Latitude:
80° 35' 00.0" S
-80.58333°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
160° 30' 00.0" E
160.50000°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
88 m
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica, Howat et al. 2018
Source Identifier:
REMA 8m tile 21_34 release 1.1
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Polar Geospatial Center
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Height at reference point

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
24-May-1961

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