Name details

Dyke Island

Dyke Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Dyke Island (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 138182

Feature type: Island (5)

Origin

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

Narrative

This island features an abundance of dark cross-cutting layers (intrusive dykes) in several orientations.

Named For

Location

Latitude:

68° 46' 43.8" S

-68.77883°

Accurate to 0m

Longitude:

77° 54' 48.6" E

77.91351°

Accurate to 0m

Altitude:

0 m

Accurate to 0m

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:

Unknown The coordinates for this place name were derived from Map id 0 - This map does not exist in the SCAR Map Catalogue. in the SCAR Map Catalogue.

Source Name:

Rauer Group 50K GIS Topographic Dataset

Source Identifier:

Raur50k

Source Scale:

Unknown

Source Institution:

Australian Antarctic Division

Source Person:

Unknown

Source Publisher:

Unknown

Remote sensing:

Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:

Official

Date approved:

7-Jun-2016

Display Scales

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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

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