Name details

Adamson Bay

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

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

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 118

Feature type: Bay

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Narrative

A bay in the Vestfold Hills on the northern side of Crooked Fjord just to the west of Lake Burton and south of Mule Peninsula. The bay is ice covered in winter and often ice free in summer.

Named For

Named after Professor Don Adamson who has made a great contribution to studies of the younger evolution of the Antarctic environment and has published many papers on the topic.

Location

Latitude:
68° 38' 08.9" S
-68.63581°
Accurate to 30m
Longitude:
78° 02' 49.9" E
78.04719°
Accurate to 30m
Altitude:
0 m
Unknown precision

Images


©Nathan Saunders 2009
Catalogue id
IA21839
Caption
Adamson Bay, Vestfold Hills. Taken from helicopter at height of 2500 feet. Looking East.
Photographer
Saunders, Nathan

Map

Source

Location Method:
Topographic data
Source Name:
Vestfold Hills Topographic GIS Dataset
Source Identifier:
vest_hills_gis
Source Scale:
1:5000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
Australian Antarctic Division
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Metadata for coordinates and origin of topographic data.

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
27-Apr-1995

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