SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Browning Peninsula

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

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

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Place ID: 1923
Name ID: 2088

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:

Browning Peninsula (Russia)
Browning Peninsula (United States of America)

Narrative

A rocky outcrop connected to the continental ice on the Budd Coast. Plotted from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Named by USACAN after Cmdr C L Browning, USN, chief staff officer with USN Operation Windmill (1947-48).

Named For

Location

Latitude:

66° 28' 10.2" S

-66.46950°

Accurate to 30m

Longitude:

110° 33' 00.0" E

110.55000°

Accurate to 30m

Altitude:

112 m

Accurate to 5m

Images

©AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1986

Catalogue id: 2906A3
Photographer: Moesker, G

Map

Source

Location Method:

Topographic data

Source Name:

Windmill Islands 1:50000 GIS Dataset

Source Identifier:

Wind50K

Source Scale:

1:5000

Source Institution:

Australian Antarctic Division

Source Person:

Brolsma

Source Publisher:

Australian Antarctic Division

Remote sensing:

Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:

Official

Date approved:

4-Jul-1961

Related information

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