Name details

Cape Star

Star, Cape (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Cape Star  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 2654

Feature type: Cape

Origin

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

Narrative

Background 1. In recognition of the "Star", one of the island's first sealing vesels. 2. "At both islands Hasselborough observed the shores abounding in sea life. Seals, sea-leopards, and sea elephants were in profusion. Penguins were there in the millions. So glowing were his reports on return to Port Jackson on Augsut 17, 1810, that within weeks six vessels were on their way to Macquarie island. The brigs Aurora and Star followed by the ???" Saturday Evening Mercury 19/9/1970 page 14.

Named For

Name of one of the first sealing ships to visit Macquarie Island.

Location

Latitude:
54° 44' 39.8" S
-54.74439°
Accurate to 30m
Longitude:
158° 47' 17.2" E
158.78810°
Accurate to 30m
Altitude:
0 m
Unknown precision

Images


©Julie McInnes 2009
Catalogue id
IA16666
Caption
Looking across Carrick Bay at Cape Star.
Photographer
McInnes, Julie

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:
Unknown

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