Name details

Lake Cowan

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

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

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United States Gazetteer Id 123876

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 S of Lake Vereteno in the E part of the Vestfold Hills. The lake, which resembles a seal in plan, has been visited by ANARE parties several seasons following 1957. Named by ANCA for D. Cowan, weather observer at Davis Station in 1969, a member of an ANARE party which passed the lake in March 1969.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
68° 32' 00.0" S
-68.53333°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
78° 25' 00.0" E
78.41667°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images


©Belinda Reynolds 2009
Catalogue id
IA21915
Caption
Lake Cowan, Vestfold Hills. Taken from helicopter at height of 1000 feet. Looking West.
Photographer
Reynolds, Belinda

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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