Name details
Lake Stinear
Stinear, Lake (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Lake Stinear (The name as it would appear on a map)
If this information is incorrect, please e-mail mapping@aad.gov.au
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.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
- Stinear Lake (Russia)
- Stinear Lake (United States of America)
Narrative
A salt-water lake about 6 km ENE of Davis station in the Vestfold Hills. It is about 3 km long and 0.5 km wide, elongated east-west. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). First visited by ANARE party led by Phillip Law in January, 1955.
Named For
Named after Bruce H. Stinear, geologist at Davis and Mawson in 1957.
Location
Images
©Belinda Reynolds 2009
- Catalogue id
- IA21927
- Caption
- Lake Stinear, Vestfold Hills. Taken from helicopter at height of 1100 feet. Looking South.
- Photographer
- Reynolds, Belinda
Map
Source
Comments
Metadata for coordinates and origin of topographic data.Approval status
Display Scales
For example, selecting 'Aus_display_scale_20M' would only return names that would appear on a 1:20 million scale map.
| Aus_display_scale_20M: | No | Aus_display_scale_10M: | No | ||
| Aus_display_scale_5M: | No | Aus_display_scale_2M: | No | ||
| Aus_display_scale_1M: | No | Aus_display_scale_500k: | No | ||
| Aus_display_scale_250k: | No | Aus_display_scale_100k: | No | ||
| Aus_display_scale_50k: | Yes | Aus_display_scale_25k: | No | ||
| Aus_display_scale_10k: | No | Aus_display_scale_5k: | No | ||
| Aus_display_scale_1k: | No |
Related information
Biodiversity
View
fauna,
flora or
both
within 1.0 degree of this location
Place names
View
Australian or
international
place names within 1.0 degree of this location.