SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Bandits Bluff

Bandits Bluff (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Bandits Bluff (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 859
Name ID: 203

Feature type: Bluff

Origin

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

Narrative

A striking black bluff about 40 m above sea level on an unnamed island about 1 km north-west of Barrier Island in the Tryne Islands off the northern part of the Vestfold Hills. Visited by an ANARE field party which established a field hut at the foot of the bluff in July 1983.

Named For

The people involved in the hut construction were referred to at Davis as "The Bandits"

Location

Latitude:

68° 25' 18.1" S

-68.42170°

Accurate to 30m

Longitude:

78° 23' 04.9" E

78.38470°

Accurate to 30m

Altitude:

31.5 m

Accurate to 5m

Images

©Belinda Reynolds 2009

Catalogue id: IA21843
Caption: Bandits Bluff, Vestfold Hills. Taken from helicopter at height of 1000 feet. Looking Northeast.
Photographer: Reynolds, Belinda

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:

15-Mar-1984

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