Name details
Petrel Peak
Petrel Peak (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Petrel Peak (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 2695
Feature type:
Peak
Origin
This name originates from Australia.
It is part of the
Australian Antarctic Gazetteer.
Narrative
Named by Mawson in 1943.
Named For
Location
Latitude:
54° 45' 58.1" S
-54.76613°
Accurate to 30m
Longitude:
158° 47' 10.8" E
158.78632°
Accurate to 30m
Altitude:
228 m
Accurate to 2m
Images
©AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1986
- Catalogue id
- 410C1
- Photographer
- Ertok, Ozcan (Ozzie)
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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