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 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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