Name details

Braunsteffer Lake

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

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

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United States Gazetteer Id 122885

Feature type: Water body (11)

Origin

This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

A lake 0.5 mi long located 1 mi W of the central part of Lake Zvezda in the Vestfold Hills. The lake was photographed from the air by USN Operation HighJump (1946-47) and was mapped from air photos by the SovAE (1956) and ANARE (1957-58). Named by ANCA for C. Braunsteffer, weather observer at Davis Station in 1959, who carried out scientific investigations on lakes in the Vestfold Hills.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
68° 32' 00.0" S
-68.53333°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
78° 22' 00.0" E
78.36667°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images


©Richard 'Tubby' Seton 2009
Catalogue id
IA21912
Caption
Lake Braunsteffer, Vestfold Hills. Taken from helicopter at height of 1000 feet. Looking Southwest.
Photographer
Seton, Richard

Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Unknown
Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Unknown
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
1-Jan-1973

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