Name details

Hewitt Bay

Hewitt Bay (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Hewitt Bay  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 136643

Feature type: Bay (3)

Origin

This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

A rectangular bay 1 mile long between Biscoe Point and Access Point, Anvers Island, Palmer Archipelago. Named by US-ACAN (2007) after Roger P. Hewitt of the Antarctic Ecosystem Research Group, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, CA; leader of surveys of the ecosystem in waters adjoining the South Shetland Islands and northern Antarctic Peninsula 1989-2005; convener, Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) working group, 2000-05 (APC, 2008).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
64° 49' 00.0" S
-64.81667°
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Longitude:
63° 47' 00.0" W
-63.78333°
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Altitude:
0 m
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
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Source Name:
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Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
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Source Institution:
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Source Person:
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Source Publisher:
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Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
20-May-2008

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