Name details

Kamelen Island

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

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

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 811

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 45 m above sea level in the northern part of the Stanton Group, about 5km north-west of Oldham Island. The Stanton Group was mapped and named by BANZARE under Sir Douglas Mawson in February, 1931. The islands were first mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936) and called Kamelen (The Camel) by Norwegian cartographers.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
67° 30' 29.0" S
-67.50807°
Accurate to 200m
Longitude:
61° 35' 51.8" E
61.59774°
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:
Satellite image ( Satellite Image Catalogue - Scene Id E150_RGB_321_1X not in the Satellite Image Catalogue. )
Source Scale:
1:20000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
USGS
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
18-May-1971

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