Name details

Scoble Lake

Scoble Lake (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Scoble Lake  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 2711

Feature type: Water body

Origin

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

Narrative

Charles H Scoble, diesel engineer of the first ANARE party was accidentally drowned in July 1948. The lake is overlooked by the cross erected to his memory.

Named For

Charles H Scoble, diesel engineer of the first ANARE party was accidentally drowned in July 1948.

Location

Latitude:
54° 30' 56.5" S
-54.51569°
Accurate to 30m
Longitude:
158° 54' 34.3" E
158.90952°
Accurate to 30m
Altitude:
215 m
Accurate to 2m

Images


©AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1976
Catalogue id
2750A5
Caption
Present
Photographer
Johnstone, Gavin W

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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