Name details

Selkirk Creek

Selkirk Creek (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Selkirk Creek  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 134433

Feature type: Watercourse

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer.

Narrative

This stream drains the basin that lies one kilometre east of Mt Martin. This is probably the largest (previously) unnamed stream on Macquarie Island, draining an oddly shaped (fault-defined) valley and reaching the sea about one kilometre south of Waterfall Bay hut.

It is named for Patricia Selkirk, who has spent several summers as a scientist at Macquarie Island and who is the senior author of the definitive book "Subantarctic Macquarie Island: Environment and Biology", P.M.Selkirk, R.D.Seppelt & D.R.Selkirk, Cambridge University Press, 1990. {Australian Antarctic Division, 2004}.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
54° 41' 53.0" S
-54.69806°
Accurate to 30m
Longitude:
158° 51' 05.0" E
158.85139°
Accurate to 30m
Altitude:
0 m
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Topographic data
Source Name:
Macquarie Island Vegetation and Drainage Structure Data Set,Mac Island Contours from AIRSAR Aug 2000
Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
1:25000
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:
Unknown

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