SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Oblong Lake

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

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

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Place ID: 10517
Name ID: 1187

Origin

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

Narrative

A highly saline rectangular lake in a shallow depression about 1 km south-east of Leb'ed Lake in the Vestfold Hills. The lake was one of several lakes investigated by ANARE biologists wintering at Davis in 1974.

Named For

descriptive

Location

Latitude:

68° 37' 37.0" S

-68.62694°

Accurate to 30m

Longitude:

78° 14' 31.0" E

78.24194°

Accurate to 30m

Altitude:

-3.6 m

Accurate to 5m

Images

©Belinda Reynolds 2009

Catalogue id: IA21958
Caption: Oblong Lake, Vestfold Hills. Taken from helicopter at height of 1000 feet. Looking North.
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:

27-Aug-1975

Related information

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