SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Long Peninsula

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

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

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Place ID: 8105
Name ID: 2086

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:

Langnes Peninsula (United States of America)
Langneset (Russia)

Narrative

A narrow, sinuous, rocky peninsula about 19 km long, in the northern section of the Vestfold Hills. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Langneset (The Long Point) by Norwegian cartographers.

Named For

Location

Latitude:

68° 28' 20.0" S

-68.47222°

Accurate to 30m

Longitude:

78° 14' 40.0" E

78.24444°

Accurate to 30m

Altitude:

91 m

Accurate to 5m

Images

©Nathan Saunders 2009

Catalogue id: IA21938
Caption: Long Peninsula, Vestfold Hills. Taken from helicopter at height of 2000 feet. Looking North.
Photographer: Saunders, Nathan

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:

4-Sep-1956

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