SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Penney Bay

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

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

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Place ID: 11082
Name ID: 125

Feature type: Bay

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:

Penney Bay (United States of America)

Narrative

A large bay extending from Robinson Ridge to Browning Peninsula, Windmill Islands. The area was photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946/47), ANARE (1956) and the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956). Named after R.L. Penney, biologist at Wilkes in 1959 and 1960.

Named For

Location

Latitude:

66° 26' 00.0" S

-66.43331°

Accurate to 30m

Longitude:

110° 36' 00.0" E

110.60000°

Accurate to 30m

Altitude:

0 m

Accurate to 5m

Images

©AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1998

Catalogue id: 3435C6
Photographer: Dixon, Grant

Map

Source

Location Method:

Topographic data

Source Name:

Windmill Islands 1:50000 GIS Dataset

Source Identifier:

Wind50K

Source Scale:

1:5000

Source Institution:

Australian Antarctic Division

Source Person:

Brolsma

Source Publisher:

Australian Antarctic Division

Remote sensing:

Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:

Official

Date approved:

Unknown

Related information

Biodiversity
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Place names
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