Name details

Penal Bay

Penal Bay (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Penal Bay (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 47

Feature type: Bay

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Penal, buhta (Russia)

Narrative

The bay runs to the west of the Edisto Channel and is bounded to the south by Currituck Island, to the west by the Shacleton Ice Shelf and to the north by Dieglman Island. It was charted by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956

Named For

Location

Latitude:

66° 02' 26.2" S

-66.04061°

Accurate to 200m

Longitude:

100° 47' 04.2" E

100.78450°

Accurate to 200m

Altitude:

Not recorded

Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:

Satellite Image

Source Name:

LIMA

Source Identifier:

Source Scale:

1:50000

Source Institution:

Australian Antarctic Division

Source Person:

Brolsma

Source Publisher:

USGS

Remote sensing:

Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:

Official

Date approved:

12-Mar-1992

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Aus_display_scale_250k:	No	Aus_display_scale_100k:	Yes
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