Name details

Stinear Lake

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

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

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United States Gazetteer Id 132193

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 salt-water lake, 1.5 mi long and 0.25 mi wide, lying immediately E of Lake Dingle on Breidnes Peninsula, Vestfold Hills. Mapped from air photos taken by USN Operation HighJump, 1946-47. First visited by an ANARE in 1955. Named by ANCA for Bruce H. Stinear, geologist at Davis and Mawson Stations for several seasons in the period 1954-59.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
68° 34' 00.0" S
-68.56667°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
78° 08' 00.0" E
78.13333°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

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

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-1965

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