SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Lake Cowan

Cowan, Lake (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Lake Cowan (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 3053
Name ID: 1158

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:

Lake Cowan (United States of America)

Narrative

A lake about 1 km south of Lake Vereteno in the eastern part of the Vestfold Hills. The lake, which resembles a seal in plan, has been visited by ANARE parties since 1957.

Named For

Named after D Cowan, weather observer at Davis in 1969, who was a member of an ANARE party which passed the lake on the way to Platcha in March, 1969.

Location

Latitude:

68° 31' 38.3" S

-68.52731°

Accurate to 30m

Longitude:

78° 24' 42.5" E

78.41181°

Accurate to 30m

Altitude:

20.9 m

Accurate to 5m

Images

©Belinda Reynolds 2009

Catalogue id: IA21915
Caption: Lake Cowan, Vestfold Hills. Taken from helicopter at height of 1000 feet. Looking West.
Photographer: Reynolds, Belinda

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:

18-May-1971

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