Name details

Waipuke Beach

Waipuke Beach (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Waipuke Beach  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 114668

Feature type: Beach (7)

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

The beach that is the site of the middle Adelie Penguin rookery at Cape Bird. This rookery suffered the disaster of being nearly washed away at least one year before it was visited in January 1959 by members of the NZGSAE, 1958-59, and possibly after the visit by Austen in the 1955/56 season. The beach merges with a low gravel stream-fan which extends inland to high rock bluffs topped by the edge of the Mt Bird melt-water from the ice-cap or from the sudden outbreak of a sub-glacial stream. The penguin rookery on the seaward end of the stream-fan was cut into isolated remnants elevated a foot or more above their surroundings by erosion along the braided channels of the stream. There are signs of another long-abandoned rookery on the south end of the beach. Given this descriptive name by the NZGSAE, 1958-59. Waipuke is the Maori word for flood.

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Location

Latitude:
77° 14' 00.0" S
-77.23333°
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Longitude:
166° 24' 00.0" E
166.40000°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Map

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Remote sensing:
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