Name details

Hurd Point

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

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

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 2575

Feature type: Point

Origin

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

Narrative

In his 1822 map Lieutenant William Langdon, Royal Navy, named the feature "Captain Hurds Point". This was published on the 1917 edition of the Admiralty Chart as Hurd Point and adopted by Mawson in 1943. Captain Thomas Hurd, RN, was Hydrographer to the Royal Navy, 1808-1823.

Named For

Captain Thomas Hurd, RN, was Hydrographer to the Royal Navy, 1808-1823.

Location

Latitude:
54° 46' 35.5" S
-54.77652°
Accurate to 30m
Longitude:
158° 50' 16.8" E
158.83800°
Accurate to 30m
Altitude:
16 m
Accurate to 5m

Images


©Helen Cooley 2009
Catalogue id
IA16719
Caption
Hurd Point from the top of the scree slope
Photographer
Cooley, Helen

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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