SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Calendar Lake

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

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

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Place ID: 2202
Name ID: 1251

Origin

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

Narrative

An irregular rounded lake in the Vestfold Hills measuring about 200 m by 100 m.

Named For

Fossil shells collected there were used for carbon dating hence the association with "calendar".

Location

Latitude:

68° 30' 46.8" S

-68.51300°

Accurate to 30m

Longitude:

78° 26' 45.6" E

78.44600°

Accurate to 30m

Altitude:

0 m

Unknown precision

Images

©Richard 'Tubby' Seton 2009

Catalogue id: IA21860
Caption: Calendar Lake, Vestfold Hills. Taken from helicopter at height of 1000 feet. Looking Southwest.
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:

26-Jul-1983

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