SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Eyres Bay

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

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

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Place ID: 4422
Name ID: 108

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:

Eyres Bay (United States of America)

Narrative

A bay formed by the Western side of Browning Peninsula and the Vanderford Glacier at the southern end of the Windmill Islands. The feature was first plotted from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Named after Ensign D L Eyres, USN, a member of the Wilkes party in 1958.

Named For

Location

Latitude:

66° 29' 00.0" S

-66.48331°

Accurate to 30m

Longitude:

110° 28' 00.1" E

110.46669°

Accurate to 30m

Altitude:

0 m

Accurate to 5m

Images

©AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1976

Catalogue id: 475C6
Photographer: Regester, Robin P

Map

Source

Location Method:

Topographic data

Source Name:

Windmill Islands 1:50000 GIS Dataset

Source Identifier:

Wind50K

Source Scale:

1:5000

Source Institution:

Australian Antarctic Division

Source Person:

Brolsma

Source Publisher:

Australian Antarctic Division

Remote sensing:

Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:

Official

Date approved:

23-Oct-1962

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