Name details
Landing Beach
Landing Beach (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Landing Beach (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 2584
Feature type:
Beach
Origin
This name originates from Australia.
It is part of the
Australian Antarctic Gazetteer.
Narrative
The beach on the eastern side of the Isthmus at Macquarie Island which was used for landing parties on the Island.
Named For
descriptive
Location
Latitude:
54° 30' 10.0" S
-54.50278°
Accurate to 30m
Longitude:
158° 56' 07.7" E
158.93546°
Accurate to 30m
Altitude:
5 m
Unknown precision
Images
©Ben Raymond 2009
- Catalogue id
- IA16733
- Caption
- Landing Beach from Wireless Hill. The yellow containers are fuel spill kits ready for refuelling during resupply.
- Photographer
- Raymond, Ben
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 Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
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
Date approved:
11-Aug-1955
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