SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Ytre Bølingen

Ytre Bølingen (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Ytre Bølingen (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 19027
Name ID: 137369

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

Translated from Norwegian the name means " The outer part of Bølingen". Original spelling was Ytre Bølingen with the modern spelling being the same. 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. Name adopted by Australia in 2011.

Named For

Location

Latitude:

69° 27' 19.0" S

-69.45528°

Accurate to 200m

Longitude:

75° 41' 29.0" E

75.69139°

Accurate to 200m

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:

Brolsma

Source Publisher:

Geoscience Australia - National Mapping

Remote sensing:

Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:

Official

Date approved:

13-Dec-2011

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