SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Turner Lagoon

Turner Lagoon (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Turner Lagoon (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 15075
Name ID: 136805

Origin

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

Narrative

A small, shallow, round lake lying close to the coast on the western side of the Stornes Peninsula and also lying about 2.8km NW of Blundell peak in the Larsemann Hills.

Named For

Named after Phillip Turner, senior helicopter pilot during the 1987-88 ANARE summer season

Location

Latitude:

69° 24' 25.9" S

-69.40720°

Accurate to 25m

Longitude:

76° 03' 21.9" E

76.05608°

Accurate to 25m

Altitude:

5 m

Accurate to 10m

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:

Topographic data

Source Name:

Larsemann Hills 1:25000 Topographic GIS Dataset

Source Identifier:

Metadata ( Lars25k - Larsemann Hills 1:25000 Topographic GIS Dataset )

Source Scale:

1:25000

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:

25-Oct-1989

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