Name details

Watanuki Pond

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

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

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 135729

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 lying 3.5km south-southwest of Minotaur Pass at Apollo Peak. The pond is 600m east-northeast of the larger Kurasawa Pond and 1.2km 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 Kunihiko Watanuki, Department of Chemistry, University of Tokyo, Japan. Participant in the McMurdo Dry Valleys Drilling Project during the 1973-74 field season, Labyrinth pond studies, 1985-86.

Location

Latitude:
77° 31' 34.2" S
-77.52617°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
160° 46' 27.1" E
160.77421°
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Altitude:
876 m
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Images

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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

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