Name details

Zolotov Island

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

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

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 938

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 off Mule Peninsula in the southern part of the Vestfold Hills, about 1 km south of Hawker Island. 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 Ostrov Zolotova (Zolotov Island) by the Soviet Expedition after A.H. Zolotov, hydrologist, who died in Antarctica.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
68° 39' 32.0" S
-68.65889°
Accurate to 30m
Longitude:
77° 52' 07.0" E
77.86861°
Accurate to 30m
Altitude:
46.5 m
Accurate to 5m

Images


©Belinda Reynolds 2009
Catalogue id
IA22046
Caption
Zolotov Island, Vestfold Hills. Taken from helicopter at height of 2500 feet. Looking East.
Photographer
Reynolds, Belinda

Map

Source

Location Method:
Topographic data
Source Name:
Vestfold Hills Topographic GIS Dataset
Source Identifier:
Metadata ( vest_hills_gis - Vestfold Hills 1:25000 Topographic GIS Dataset )
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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