SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Mule Peninsula

Mule Peninsula (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Mule Peninsula (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 9946
Name ID: 2083

Feature type: Peninsula

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:

Mule Peninsula (United States of America)

Narrative

A peninsula lying just north of Crooked Fjord in the southern part of the Vestfold Hills.

Named For

Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Breidnesmulen (The Broad Point Snout) by the Norwegian cartographers.

Location

Latitude:

68° 38' 40.9" S

-68.64469°

Accurate to 30m

Longitude:

77° 58' 46.2" E

77.97950°

Accurate to 30m

Altitude:

73 m

Accurate to 5m

Images

No image available

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

Related information

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