Name details
Lusitania Bay
Lusitania Bay (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Lusitania Bay (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 2681
Feature type:
Bay
Origin
This name originates from Australia.
It is part of the
Australian Antarctic Gazetteer.
Narrative
It is not known when the term 'bay' came into use as it was variously known as 'anchorage' and 'road'.
Named For
Named in 1822 for Lieutenant William Langdon's ship 'Lusitania'.
Location
Latitude:
54° 43' 01.1" S
-54.71699°
Accurate to 30m
Longitude:
158° 51' 05.7" E
158.85159°
Accurate to 30m
Altitude:
0 m
Unknown precision
Images
©Julie McInnes 2008
- Catalogue id
- IA16737
- Caption
- South of Lusitania Bay, looking north along the east coast. The old hut is in the foreground. Lusitania Bay is the next bay to the north.
- 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 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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