Name details

Judge and Clerk Islets

Judge and Clerk Islets (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Judge and Clerk Islets  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 2580

Feature type: Island

Origin

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

Narrative

This group of small rocky islands north of Macquarie Island may have been discovered and named at the same time as Macquarie Island itself. The first account published 10 months after discovery of the Island uses this name.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
54° 21' 49.3" S
-54.36369°
Accurate to 30m
Longitude:
158° 59' 40.9" E
158.99469°
Accurate to 30m
Altitude:
0 m
Unknown precision

Images


©AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1976
Catalogue id
2707B5
Caption
Judge group from the north
Photographer
Johnstone, Gavin W

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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