Orton Reef (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Orton Reef (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Reef
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:
A shoal of rock, about 45 m in diameter, with a least depth of 61 cm, 3.7 km from the summit of Shirley Island, Windmill Islands. Charted during a hydrographic survey of Newcomb Bay and Approaches by d' A.T. Gale, hydrographic surveyor with the ANARE Expedition on the MV Thala Dan, 1962, led by Phillip Law. Named after Dr. M.N. Orton, medical officer at Wilkes in 1961, who assisted with the survey.
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