Name details

Rumble Point

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

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

If this information is incorrect, please e-mail mapping@aad.gov.au

Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 140237

Feature type: Point

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.

Narrative

Prominent point at the northern end of the 2.5 km long promontory forming the south-west entrance to Orne Harbour, Danco Coast. The promontory runs north to south and includes Spigot Peak, 289 m.

Named For

Named for Jane Rumble, OBE, (b. 1972) Head of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office Polar Regions Department since 2007, Deputy Commissioner for the British Antarctic Territory, Head of UK delegation to the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting and UK CCAMLR Commissioner. Awarded Honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of Leeds and OBE for services to Polar science, marine conservation and diplomacy in 2018.

Location

Latitude:
64° 37' 30.0" S
-64.62500°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
62° 33' 15.1" W
-62.55420°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Landsat-8 image courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey
Source Identifier:
https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/
Source Scale:
1:30 m resolution
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
UK APC
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
25-Mar-2021

Display Scales

Note These display scales were chosen for use by Australia, with an emphasis on East Antarctica.
          For example, selecting 'Aus_display_scale_20M' would only return names that would appear on a 1:20 million scale map.

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     


Related information

Biodiversity
View fauna, flora or both within 1.0 degree of this location

Place names
View British or international place names within 1.0 degree of this location.