Name details

Penny Point

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

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

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 140297

Feature type: Point

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 point on the southern side of Nicholson Peninsula, marking the northern entrance to Matterson Inlet.

Named For

Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named by United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Lieutenant Commander H.C. Penny, U.S. Navy, commanding officer of USS Vance, ocean station ship in support of aircraft flights between New Zealand and Antarctica during U.S. Navy Operation Deep Freeze 1962.

Location

Latitude:
80° 48' 00.0" S
-80.80000°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
160° 41' 00.0" E
160.68333°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
70 m
Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica, Howat et al. 2018
Source Identifier:
REMA 8m tile 21_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:
Official
Date approved:
20-May-1965

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