Name details

Cape Polar Star

Polar Star, Cape (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Cape Polar Star  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 140028

Feature type: Cape

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 bold cape which forms the southwest extremity of Coulman Island in northwestern Ross Sea.

Named For

Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) in 1987 after U.S. Coast Guard Cutter (USCGC) activities in Antarctica, including the Ross Sea, since Operation Deep Freeze, 1978. A survey of this feature was conducted from Polar Star in 1986.

Location

Latitude:
73° 37' 28.4" S
-73.62456°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
169° 41' 03.0" E
169.68418°
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Altitude:
702 m
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica, Howat et al. 2018
Source Identifier:
REMA 8m tile 13_34 release 1.1
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Polar Geospatial Center
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Height at reference point

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
24-May-2018

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