Name details

Pagodroma Gorge

Pagodroma Gorge (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Pagodroma Gorge  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 622

Feature type: Gorge

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:

Narrative

A steep-sided gorge about 6 km long and about 150 m deep joining Radok Lake and Beaver Lake at the eastern end of the Aramis Range, Prince Charles Mountains. Photographed by ANARE aircraft in 1956. The gorge was traversed by A. Medvecky, geologist with the ANARE Prince Charles Mountains survey party in January 1969.Named after the Snow Petrels (Pagodroma nivea) which nest in the weathered sandstone walls of the gorge.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
70° 49' 23.6" S
-70.82322°
Accurate to 50m
Longitude:
68° 07' 39.1" E
68.12753°
Accurate to 50m
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Georeferenced Satellite Image
Source Name:
SPOT 5 11 January 2004
Source Identifier:
Satellite image ( Satellite Image Catalogue - Scene Id sp5xi10_265498_110104_ortho.bil not in the Satellite Image Catalogue. )
Source Scale:
1:15000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
CNES
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
Unknown

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