Name details

Wignall Nunataks

Wignall Nunataks (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Wignall Nunataks  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 1845

Feature type: Nunatak

Origin

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

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

Two snow-covered nunataks about 6 km north-west of Mount Starlight in the Athos Range, Prince Charles Mountains. Recorded on terrestrial photographs taken by R.H. Lacey, surveyor at Mawson in 1955, and on aerial photography by ANARE in 1959 and 1965. Named after R. Wignall, weather observer at Davis in 1964.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
70° 10' 52.7" S
-70.18131°
Accurate to 200m
Longitude:
64° 27' 50.5" E
64.46403°
Accurate to 200m
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:
Satellite Image
Source Name:
LIMA - Landsat Image Mosaic Antarctica
Source Identifier:
Satellite image ( Satellite Image Catalogue - Scene Id E151_RGB_321_1X not in the Satellite Image Catalogue. )
Source Scale:
1:30000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
USGS
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
Unknown

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