Tonagh Island

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

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

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Place ID: 14794
Name ID: 1013

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

A steep-sided, flat-topped island, approximately 4 km long and 2 km wide. Situated in the western part of Amundsen Bay. Sighted in October, 1956, by the ANARE Amundsen Bay party led by Peter W. Crohn and named after Lieut. Leslie Tonagh, RAASC, DUKW driver with the ANARE Expedition, 1956. The first landing was made by an ANARE aircraft piloted by Flying Officer J. Seaton in August, 1956.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
67° 05' 47.6" S
-67.09656°
Accurate to 200m
Longitude:
50° 18' 09.0" E
50.30250°
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 - Landsat Image Mosaic Antarctica
Source Identifier:
Satellite image ( Satellite Image Catalogue - Scene Id E129_RGB_321_1X not in the Satellite Image Catalogue. )
Source Scale:
1:50000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
USGS - United States Geological Survey
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
22-Jul-1957

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