SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Flanders Moraine

Flanders Moraine (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Flanders Moraine (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 4677
Name ID: 1321

Feature type: Moraine

Origin

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

Narrative

A loose rock-covered area of stagnant ice in the Vestfold Hills about 3 km by 1 km in area. Thermo karst features such as hummocks, lakes, and under-ice streams are common. The entire surface is unstable during the summer melt. The complete cover of loose rocks makes the area strikingly different from the bedrock areas of the Vestfold Hills.

Named For

Named in view of the remarkable similarity of the pock-marked unstable surface to a World War 1 battlefield.

Location

Latitude:

68° 38' 15.0" S

-68.63750°

Accurate to 30m

Longitude:

78° 25' 59.9" E

78.43331°

Accurate to 30m

Altitude:

118 m

Accurate to 5m

Images

©Richard 'Tubby' Seton 2009

Catalogue id: IA21890
Caption: Flanders Moraine, Vestfold Hills. Taken from helicopter at height of 1700 feet. Looking Southwest.
Photographer: Seton, Richard

Map

Source

Location Method:

Topographic data

Source Name:

Vestfold Hills Topographic GIS Dataset

Source Identifier:

Metadata ( vest_hills_gis - Vestfold Hills 1:25000 Topographic GIS Dataset )

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:

3-Dec-1984

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