Name details

Bauer Bay

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

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

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 95

Feature type: Bay

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer.

Narrative

A bay on the west coast of Macquarie Island.

Named For

Nomenclature Board of Tasmania Regn 7303J / Decn 4935 "In charge of operations for Hatch, was a sealer named Otto Bauer. During the time they were associated, Bauer spent many summers on windswept Macquarie Island. His name has been given to a bay on the islands north-west coast" {Saturday Evening Mercury, 26/9/1970, page 30}. "Full scale operations for extracting oil were resumed on Macquarie Island in 1915. The Rachel Cohen was again used to transport the gangs to the island and return with the oil to Hobart. Otto Bauer was again Hatch's headman on the island. He died there of heart failure on May 1, 1918" {Saturday Evening Mercury, 3/10/1970, page 41}.

Location

Latitude:
54° 33' 09.6" S
-54.55267°
Accurate to 30m
Longitude:
158° 51' 54.4" E
158.86511°
Accurate to 30m
Altitude:
0 m
Unknown precision

Images


©David Smith 2003
Catalogue id
IA16541
Caption
Northwest along the coastline of Bauer Bay. The Bauer Bay hut is in the foreground.
Photographer
Smith, David

Map

Source

Location Method:
Topographic data
Source Name:
Macquarie Island Vegetation and Drainage Structure Data Set,Mac Island Contours from AIRSAR Aug 2000
Source Identifier:
MIvegmap,macca_contour_gis
Source Scale:
1:25000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
Australian Antarctic Division
Remote sensing:
NASA AIRSAR DEM Metadata record - [macca_dem_gis]

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
11-Aug-1955

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