Name details

The Turret

Turret, The (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

The Turret  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 114610

Feature type: None recorded.

Origin

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

Narrative

A remarkable turret-shaped mass forming a projection at the western end of Big Razoback Island in the Dellbridge Islands in McMurdo Sound. It is formed by a plug of one of the vents from which the trachtye lava of this island has come. Named, because of its appearance, by Debenham in 1912.

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Location

Latitude:
77° 41' 00.0" S
-77.68333°
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Longitude:
166° 29' 00.0" E
166.48333°
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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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