Name details

Grace Lake

Grace Lake (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Grace Lake  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 1181

Feature type: Water body

Origin

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

Narrative

A lake at the northern part of Long Peninsula, Vestfold Hills, near the ice plateau.

Named For

Named after D.R. Grace, biologist at Davis in 1973, the first wintering biologist to study the lakes of the Vestfold Hills.

Location

Latitude:
68° 25' 06.2" S
-68.41839°
Accurate to 30m
Longitude:
78° 27' 29.5" E
78.45819°
Accurate to 30m
Altitude:
3 m
Accurate to 5m

Images


©Belinda Reynolds 2009
Catalogue id
IA21894
Caption
Grace Lake, Vestfold Hills. Taken from helicopter at height of 1500 feet. Looking Southwest.
Photographer
Reynolds, Belinda

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-Aug-1975

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