SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Cemetery Lake

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

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

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Place ID: 2451
Name ID: 1276

Origin

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

Narrative

A lake about 650 m long and 400 m wide on the northern side of Mule Peninsula, Vestfold Hills. Visited by an ANARE geological and biological party in January-February 1972.

Named For

Mummified carcases of elephant seals, Weddell seals, giant petrels and a skua were found on its western beach buried in sand and gravel.

Location

Latitude:

68° 37' 32.9" S

-68.62581°

Accurate to 30m

Longitude:

77° 58' 09.8" E

77.96939°

Accurate to 30m

Altitude:

-2.1 m

Accurate to 5m

Images

©Richard 'Tubby' Seton 2009

Catalogue id: IA21866
Caption: Cemetery Lake, Vestfold Hills. Taken from helicopter at height of 1400 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:

Unknown

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