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Bulatnaya Bay

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

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

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Place ID: 2023
Name ID: 110

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:

Bulatnaja, buhta (Russia)

Narrative

A bay on the northern side of Long Peninsula, Vestfold Hills. 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 For

Named Bukhta Bulatnaya (Sword-shaped Bay) by the Soviet Expedition.

Location

Latitude:

68° 28' 00.1" S

-68.46669°

Accurate to 30m

Longitude:

78° 10' 00.1" E

78.16669°

Accurate to 30m

Altitude:

0 m

Unknown precision

Images

©Rick Oates 2009

Catalogue id: IA21855
Caption: Bulatnaya Bay, Vestfold Hills. Taken from helicopter at height of 1500 feet. Looking West.
Photographer: Oates, Rick

Map

Source

Location Method:

Topographic data

Source Name:

Vestfold Hills Topographic GIS Dataset

Source Identifier:

vest_hills_gis

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:

27-Nov-1973

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