Name details

Fitzgerald Stream

Fitzgerald Stream (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Fitzgerald Stream  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 113297

Feature type: Watercourse (10)

Origin

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

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Narrative

A fairly large bubbling stream draining the warm sheltered valley between Fitzgerald Hill and Inclusion Hill on the lower ice-free western slopes of Mt Bird, and flowing to McMurdo Sound across McDonald Beach. It is the largest stream at Cape Bird, contains pleasant drinking water (unlike Harrison Stream) and might flow for several months each year (like the stream at the Marble Point airfield). Explored by the NZGSAE, 1958-59,and named byteh NZ Antarctic Place Names Committee for E B Fitzgerald, Deputy-leader of the expedition.

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Location

Latitude:
77° 16' 00.0" S
-77.26667°
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Longitude:
166° 21' 00.0" E
166.35000°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Map

Source

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Remote sensing:
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Approval status

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