Name details

Kazak Island

Kazak Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Kazak Island  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 799

Feature type: Island

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

An island about 1 km south of Mule Island, off the southern part of the Vestfold Hills. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956 and ANARE in 1957 and 1958.

Named For

Named Ostrov Kazak (Cossack Island) by the Soviet Expedition.

Location

Latitude:
68° 39' 47.9" S
-68.66331°
Accurate to 30m
Longitude:
77° 50' 15.0" E
77.83750°
Accurate to 30m
Altitude:
33 m
Accurate to 5m

Images


©Belinda Reynolds 2009
Catalogue id
IA21908
Caption
Kazak Island, Vestfold Hills. Taken from helicopter at height of 2800 feet. Looking South.
Photographer
Reynolds, Belinda

Map

Source

Location Method:
Topographic data
Source Name:
Vestfold Hills Topographic GIS Dataset
Source Identifier:
vest_hills_gis
Source Scale:
1:5000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
Australian Antarctic Division
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Metadata for coordinates and origin of topographic data.

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
Unknown

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