Name details

Deakin Bay

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

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

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 86

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:

Narrative

A wide, open bay on the coast of George V Land, just west of Cape Freshfield. Roughly delineated by the Far East Sledging Party of AAE (1911-14) under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it after Sir Alfred Deakin, Prime Minister of Australia in 1910.

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Location

Latitude:
68° 22' 59.9" S
-68.38330°
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Longitude:
150° 10' 00.1" E
150.16670°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Map

Source

Location Method:
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Source Institution:
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Source Person:
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Source Publisher:
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Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

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Approval status

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Date approved:
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