Name details

Anvil Pond

Anvil Pond (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Anvil Pond  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 135604

Feature type: Water body (11)

Origin

This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

A very small freshwater frozen pond near the western entrance to Healy Trough, approximately 2.8km southeast of Kurasawa Pond, in the Labyrinth of Wright Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys. Feature shown on: NZ AntTopo50-ME07

Named For

The name was suggested by a United States Antarctic Program (USAP) field party, 2003-04, because a rock in this small pond looks like an anvil.

Location

Latitude:
77° 32' 53.8" S
-77.54828°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
160° 48' 47.2" E
160.81312°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
791 m
Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica, Howat et al. 2018
Source Identifier:
REMA 8m tile 18_35 release 1.1
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Polar Geospatial Center
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Height at reference point; as the feature is very small, an ellipsoidal height was converted from REMA 2m DEM SETSM_WV02_20140107_103001002ACA0300_103001002C675F00_seg1_2m_v1.0_dem

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
3-Mar-2005

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