Name details

Kurasawa Pond

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

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

If this information is incorrect, please e-mail mapping@aad.gov.au

New Zealand Gazetteer Id 135672

Feature type: Water body (15)

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 pond in the northwest part of the Labyrinth of Wright Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys. It lies 4.1km southwest of Minotaur Pass and Dipboye Cique, and just east of the Upper Wright Glacier terminus. Feature shown on: NZ AntTopo50-ME07

Named For

Named by United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (2004) after Hajime Kurasawa, Japan Geological Survey, a participant in the McMurdo Dry Valleys Drilling Project in the 1973-74 and 1974-75 field seasons.

Location

Latitude:
77° 31' 40.6" S
-77.52795°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
160° 44' 40.7" E
160.74465°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
884 m
Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
0.5m Antarctic Imagery Mosaic, DigitalGlobe Inc 2018
Source Identifier:
1020010009565A00
Source Scale:
1:1889.76
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Polar Geospatial Center
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Height at reference point

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
8-Nov-2006

Display Scales

Note These display scales were chosen for use by Australia, with an emphasis on East Antarctica.
          For example, selecting 'Aus_display_scale_20M' would only return names that would appear on a 1:20 million scale map.

Aus_display_scale_20M: No      Aus_display_scale_10M: No     
Aus_display_scale_5M: No      Aus_display_scale_2M: No     
Aus_display_scale_1M: No      Aus_display_scale_500k: No     
Aus_display_scale_250k: No      Aus_display_scale_100k: No     
Aus_display_scale_50k: No      Aus_display_scale_25k: No     
Aus_display_scale_10k: No      Aus_display_scale_5k: No     
Aus_display_scale_1k: No     


Related information

Biodiversity
View fauna, flora or both within 1.0 degree of this location

Place names
View New Zealand or international place names within 1.0 degree of this location.