Name details

Flanders Moraine

Flanders Moraine (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Flanders Moraine  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 1321

Feature type: Moraine

Origin

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

Narrative

A loose rock-covered area of stagnant ice in the Vestfold Hills about 3 km by 1 km in area. Thermo karst features such as hummocks, lakes, and under-ice streams are common. The entire surface is unstable during the summer melt. The complete cover of loose rocks makes the area strikingly different from the bedrock areas of the Vestfold Hills.

Named For

Named in view of the remarkable similarity of the pock-marked unstable surface to a World War 1 battlefield.

Location

Latitude:
68° 38' 15.0" S
-68.63750°
Accurate to 30m
Longitude:
78° 25' 59.9" E
78.43331°
Accurate to 30m
Altitude:
118 m
Accurate to 5m

Images


©Richard 'Tubby' Seton 2009
Catalogue id
IA21890
Caption
Flanders Moraine, Vestfold Hills. Taken from helicopter at height of 1700 feet. Looking Southwest.
Photographer
Seton, Richard

Map

Source

Location Method:
Topographic data
Source Name:
Vestfold Hills Topographic GIS Dataset
Source Identifier:
Metadata ( vest_hills_gis - Vestfold Hills 1:25000 Topographic GIS Dataset )
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:
3-Dec-1984

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