Name details

Point Zip

Zip, Point (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Point Zip  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 138301

Feature type: Point

Origin

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

Narrative

A piece of land projecting into the Shackleton Ice Shelf, 31km west of Cape Moyes. In March 1912, the first Western Base sledging journey with the dogs aimed to lay a depot to lessen the outgoing load of the eastern exploration planned for later that year.

Named For

This feature was named in 2018 in recognition of the dog that served on the AAE. 'Zip', was named by Lieut. B.E.S. Ninnis, RF, a member of the AAE who lost his life during the far-east sledge journey. Ninnis named the dog in honour of one of his closest friends Lieut. H.E. Meade whose nickname was 'Zip'.

Location

Latitude:
66° 38' 12.0" S
-66.63667°
Accurate to 1000m
Longitude:
95° 43' 27.0" E
95.72417°
Accurate to 1000m
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:
Topographic data The coordinates for this place name were derived from Map id 14050 - Australasian Antarctic Expedition illustrating sledging operations from the Western Base Station in the SCAR Map Catalogue.
Source Name:
2003 AAT coastline topo dataset
Source Identifier:
Metadata ( AAT_Coastline_2003 - Australian Antarctic Territory Coastline 2003 )
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Geoscience Australia
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Unknown
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
14-Aug-2018

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