Name details

Flat Head

Flat Head (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Flat Head (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 969

Feature type: Head

Origin

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

Narrative

Since the volcanic eruption on McDonald Island in 2000, Flat Island is now joined to McDonald Island and is now a headland. Previous description: This descriptive name for one of the McDonald Islands was proposed by the 1948 ANARE.The island to the north of McDonald Island.

Named For

Location

Latitude:

53° 01' 50.9" S

-53.03081°

Accurate to 50m

Longitude:

72° 35' 57.1" E

72.59919°

Accurate to 50m

Altitude:

61 m

Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:

Satellite Image

Source Name:

DigitalGlobe image 9 April 2003

Source Identifier:

SceneID_1010010001C99801

Source Scale:

1:5000

Source Institution:

Australian Antarctic Division

Source Person:

Brolsma

Source Publisher:

DigitalGlobe

Remote sensing:

DigitalGlobe image SceneID_1010010001C99801

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:

Official

Date approved:

Unknown

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Aus_display_scale_250k:	No	Aus_display_scale_100k:	No
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Aus_display_scale_10k:	No	Aus_display_scale_5k:	No
Aus_display_scale_1k:	No

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