Pinn Island

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

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

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Place ID: 11295
Name ID: 1104

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 prominent island about 3 km long and 0.5 km wide in the southern part of Casey Bay in Enderby Land. Photographed from the air by RAAF Antarctic Flight in 1956. First visited by an ANARE party led by Bruce H. Stinear in October, 1957. Named after J. Pinn, geophysicist at Mawson in 1957.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
67° 33' 33.4" S
-67.55928°
Accurate to 200m
Longitude:
47° 54' 14.2" E
47.90394°
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:
29-Apr-1958

Related information

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