Name details

Ytre Bølingen

Ytre Bølingen (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Ytre Bølingen  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 137369

Feature type: Island

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Narrative

Translated from Norwegian the name means " The outer part of Bølingen". Original spelling was Ytre Bølingen with the modern spelling being the same. Feature first mapped by the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936-37 with the name shown on Hansen Chart - Atlas of Parts of the Antarctic Coastal Lands / Ingrid Christensen Coast / Sheet 10 published in 1946. Scar map catalogue map number 12811. Name adopted by Australia in 2011.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
69° 27' 19.0" S
-69.45528°
Accurate to 200m
Longitude:
75° 41' 29.0" E
75.69139°
Accurate to 200m
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Topographic data
Source Name:
Australian Antarctic Territory Coastline 2003
Source Identifier:
Metadata ( AAT_Coastline_2003 - Australian Antarctic Territory Coastline 2003 )
Source Scale:
1:10000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
Geoscience Australia - National Mapping
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
13-Dec-2011

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