Trepassey Bay

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

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

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Place ID: 14910
Name ID: 111642

Feature type: Bay

Origin

This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

NE side of Tabarin Peninsula, SSE of Hope Bay, Trinity Peninsula, was surveyed by Capt. E. Burden (Burden Passage, q.v.) and by FIDS, 23 January 1947, from the Newfoundland sealing ship Trepassey, on charter to FIDS, 1945-47; named after the ship (APC, 1955, p.21; DOS 310 Hope Bay sheet, 1961); further surveyed by FIDS from "Hope Bay" in August 1955.

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Location

Latitude:
63° 28' 00.0" S
-63.46667°
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Longitude:
56° 58' 00.0" W
-56.96667°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
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Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
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Source Institution:
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Source Person:
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Source Publisher:
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Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
4-Sep-1957

Related information

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