Name details

Point Widdows

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

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

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 2190

Feature type: Point

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

A point on a low, dark, rock outcrop on the coast of Enderby Land, west of Freeth Bay. Plotted from air photographs taken from ANARE aircraft in 1956. First visited by an airborne survey party led by S.L. Kirkby in 1960.

Named For

Named after Edmund Ian Widdows, meteorologist at Mawson in 1959.

Location

Latitude:
67° 41' 26.7" S
-67.69075°
Accurate to 300m
Longitude:
45° 23' 35.8" E
45.39328°
Accurate to 300m
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:
Satellite Image
Source Name:
LIMA - Landasat Imagery Mosaic Antarctica
Source Identifier:
Satellite image ( Satellite Image Catalogue - Scene Id E129_RGB_321_1X.tif not in the Satellite Image Catalogue. )
Source Scale:
1:50000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
USGS
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
4-Jul-1961

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