Name details

Raine Point

Raine Point (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Raine Point  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 2701

Feature type: Point

Origin

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

Narrative

The name appears on the map prepared by Lieutenant William Langdon in 1822. Captain Thomas Raine of the ship 'Surry' played a prominent part in the early history of Sydney. He returned to Sydney from his second visit to Macquarie Island a few days after Langdon arrived in Sydney from England on 30 November 1821. Both captains were in Sydney for several weeks and it is reasonable to assume that information provided by Raine influenced Langdon's decision to return to England via Macquarie Island.

Named For

Named for Captain Thomas Raine of the ship 'Surry' who visited Macquarie Island for the second time in 1821.

Location

Latitude:
54° 42' 57.0" S
-54.71584°
Accurate to 30m
Longitude:
158° 51' 10.4" E
158.85290°
Accurate to 30m
Altitude:
0 m
Unknown precision

Images


©Julie McInnes 2009
Catalogue id
IA16775
Caption
Lusitania Bay, looking across at Raine Point.
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:
11-Aug-1955

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