SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Lake McNeill

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

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

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Place ID: 9350
Name ID: 1212

Origin

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

Narrative

An EW trending lake, about 1/2 km west of Lake Cowan. An important feature on the overland route from Davis to Platcha.

Named For

Named after A R B McNeill, Physicist at Davis in 1969.

Location

Latitude:

68° 31' 40.8" S

-68.52800°

Accurate to 30m

Longitude:

78° 21' 44.3" E

78.36231°

Accurate to 30m

Altitude:

26.5 m

Accurate to 5m

Images

©Richard 'Tubby' Seton 2009

Catalogue id: IA21925
Caption: Lake McNeill, Vestfold Hills. Taken from helicopter at height of 1100 feet. Looking West.
Photographer: Seton, Richard

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:

29-Nov-1973

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