SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Lake Jabs

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

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

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Place ID: 7012
Name ID: 1279

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:

Lake Jabs (United States of America)

Narrative

A lake just east of Club Lake in the Vestfold Hills. The region was photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), ANARE (1954, 1957, 1958) and the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956).

Named For

Named after B.V. Jabs, weather observer (radio) at Davis in 1961.

Location

Latitude:

68° 33' 19.8" S

-68.55550°

Accurate to 30m

Longitude:

78° 16' 00.8" E

78.26689°

Accurate to 30m

Altitude:

-38 m

Accurate to 5m

Images

©Nathan Saunders 2009

Catalogue id: IA21923
Caption: Lake Jabs, Vestfold Hills. Taken from helicopter at height of 1400 feet. Looking East.
Photographer: Saunders, Nathan

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:

28-Jun-1961

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