SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Sted Island

Sted Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Sted Island (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 19018
Name ID: 137360

Feature type: Island

Origin

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

Narrative

Feature first mapped by the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936-37 with the name shown on Hansen Chart - Atlas of Parts of the Antarctic Coastal Lands / Ingrid Christensen Coast / Sheet 10 published in 1946. SCAR Map Catalogue map number 12811. Australia adopted the name Stedøy in 2011, which was changed to Sted Island in 2021.

Named For

The largest island of a small group of islands between the Svenner Islands and the continent.

Location

Latitude:

69° 08' 03.3" S

-69.13425°

Accurate to 50m

Longitude:

76° 44' 47.7" E

76.74658°

Accurate to 50m

Altitude:

Not recorded

Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:

Topographic data

Source Name:

Australian Antarctic Territory Coastline 2003

Source Identifier:

Metadata ( AAT_Coastline_2003 - Australian Antarctic Territory Coastline 2003 )

Source Scale:

1:10000

Source Institution:

Australian Antarctic Division

Source Person:

Mapping, AADC

Source Publisher:

Geoscience Australia - National Mapping

Remote sensing:

Not Applicable

Comments

Translated from Norwegian the name means “The Anvil Island

Approval status

Status:

Official

Date approved:

13-Dec-2011

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