SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Lake Campbell

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

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

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Place ID: 2253
Name ID: 1159

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Narrative

An irregular circular lake 200 m in diameter in the Vestfold Hills.

Named For

Named after Peter Campbell, a wintering limnologist at Davis in 1975 who made a valuable contribution to the study of the limnology of the Vestfold Hills.

Location

Latitude:

68° 28' 28.2" S

-68.47450°

Accurate to 30m

Longitude:

78° 15' 30.6" E

78.25850°

Accurate to 30m

Altitude:

7 m

Accurate to 5m

Images

©Belinda Reynolds 2009

Catalogue id: IA21913
Caption: Lake Campbell, Vestfold Hills. Taken from helicopter at height of 1500 feet. Looking East.
Photographer: Reynolds, Belinda

Map

Source

Location Method:

Topographic data

Source Name:

Vestfold Hills Topographic GIS Dataset

Source Identifier:

Metadata ( vest_hills_gis - Vestfold Hills 1:25000 Topographic GIS Dataset )

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:

7-Mar-1991

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