Name details

Aurora Point

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

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

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 2178

Feature type: Point

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer.

Narrative

A point on the mid-western coast of Macquarie Island.

Named For

This is one of the names first applied by the Admiralty in the preparation of the 1917 edition of Chart no 1022. It may possibly as Mawson suggests be named after the brig Aurora which visited the Island immediately after its discovery, but the sequence of Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-14 names applied by the Admiralty to features on the west coast and the absence of any other "new" names which indicate research into the early history of the Island during the preparation of the 1917 chart favours the view that the name commemorates the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-14's ship SY Aurora .

Location

Latitude:
54° 36' 24.4" S
-54.60678°
Accurate to 30m
Longitude:
158° 49' 35.6" E
158.82655°
Accurate to 30m
Altitude:
0 m
Unknown precision

Images


©Ian Thorne 2009
Catalogue id
IA16651
Caption
Aurora Point from Flat Creek area
Photographer
Thorne, Ian

Map

Source

Location Method:
Topographic data
Source Name:
Macquarie Island Vegetation and Drainage Structure Data Set,Mac Island Contours from AIRSAR Aug 2000
Source Identifier:
MIvegmap,macca_contour_gis
Source Scale:
1:25000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
Australian Antarctic Division
Remote sensing:
NASA AIRSAR DEM Metadata record - [macca_dem_gis] Macquarie Island Topopoly GIS Dataset. [macca_topopoly_gis]

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
11-Aug-1955

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