Name details

Cape Poinsett

Poinsett, Cape (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Cape Poinsett  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 235

Feature type: Cape

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

An ice-covered cape, the northernmost point of land on the Budd Coast in Wilkes Land. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump and named Cape Poinsett by the USACAN after Joel Poinsett, US Secretary of War, 1837-41.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
65° 45' 52.0" S
-65.76444°
Accurate to 300m
Longitude:
113° 11' 32.0" E
113.19222°
Accurate to 300m
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Satellite Image
Source Name:
LIMA
Source Identifier:
Satellite image ( Satellite Image Catalogue - Scene Id E158_RGB_321_1x 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:
Unknown

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