SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Kros Moraine

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

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

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Place ID: 7857
Name ID: 1325

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 crescent-shaped moraine about 2 km east of Robinson Ridge in the Windmill Islands.

Named For

The moraine is named after M. Kros, Surveyor at Casey in 1975.

Location

Latitude:

66° 22' 29.3" S

-66.37481°

Accurate to 30m

Longitude:

110° 38' 45.3" E

110.64592°

Accurate to 30m

Altitude:

140 m

Accurate to 5m

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:

Topographic data

Source Name:

Windmill Islands 1:50000 GIS Dataset

Source Identifier:

Metadata ( Wind50k - Windmill Islands 1:50000 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

None

Approval status

Status:

Official

Date approved:

7-Dec-1976

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