Name details

Løken Moraines

Løken Moraines (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Løken Moraines  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 1324

Feature type: Moraine

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:

Narrative

A line of moraines extending along the Budd Coast, for about 11 km, 1-4 km inland from the Windmill Islands. Photographed by ANARE in 1956. Plotted from air photographs taken by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956). Named by USACAN after a member of the 1957 Wilkes party, O. Løken, glaciologist and Norwegian member of the party.  

Named For

Location

Latitude:
66° 15' 34.0" S
-66.25944°
Accurate to 30m
Longitude:
110° 37' 48.2" E
110.63006°
Accurate to 30m
Altitude:
140 m
Accurate to 5m

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Topographic data
Source Name:
Windmill Islands 1:50000 GIS Dataset
Source Identifier:
Metadata ( Wind50k - Windmill Islands 1:50000 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

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
4-Jul-1961

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