SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Shirokaya Bay

Shirokaya Bay (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Shirokaya Bay (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 13194
Name ID: 142

Feature type: Bay

Origin

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

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Shirokaja, buhta (Russia)

Narrative

A wide bay, just east of Weddell Arm, on the northern side of Broad Peninsula, Vestfold Hills. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956 and ANARE in 1957 and 1958.

Named For

Named Bukhta Shirokaya (Wide Bay) by the Soviet Expedition.

Location

Latitude:

68° 31' 59.9" S

-68.53331°

Accurate to 30m

Longitude:

78° 10' 00.1" E

78.16669°

Accurate to 30m

Altitude:

0 m

Unknown precision

Images

©Henk Brolsma 2003

Catalogue id: IA16546
Caption: View looking south east. Shirokaya Bay is the ice covered bay in the bottom right of the photo.
Photographer: Brolsma, Henk

Map

Source

Location Method:

Topographic data

Source Name:

Vestfold Hills Topographic GIS Dataset

Source Identifier:

vest_hills_gis

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:

Unknown

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