Name details

Garden Bay

Garden Bay (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Garden Bay  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 2562

Feature type: Bay

Origin

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

Narrative

The bay just east of Hut Hill at the Southern end of Wireless Hill on Macquarie Island.

Named For

The bay was named by Mawson's 1911-13 Australasian Antarctic Expedition.

Location

Latitude:
54° 29' 56.9" S
-54.49914°
Accurate to 30m
Longitude:
158° 56' 28.8" E
158.94133°
Accurate to 30m
Altitude:
0 m
Accurate to 1m

Images


©Dave Watts 2005
Catalogue id
IA16558
Caption
View of Garden Bay taken from the hill just west of the bay. Aurora Australis anchored on right of photo. Photo by Dave Watts, Voyage 5, March 2005
Photographer
Watts, David (Dave)

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 - Metadata_ID [macca_dem_gis]

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
11-Aug-1955

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