SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Fossil Wood Point

Fossil Wood Point (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Fossil Wood Point (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 4850
Name ID: 2140

Feature type: Point

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:

Fossil Wood Point (United States of America)

Narrative

A point of land between Bainmedart Cove and Radok Lake in the eastern part of the Aramis Range, Prince Charles Mountains. The area was visited several times in January-February, 1969, by A Medvecky, geologist with the ANARE Prince Charles Mountains survey party.Deposits of fossil wood were found on the point.

Named For

Location

Latitude:

70° 51' 00.0" S

-70.85000°

Accurate to 50m

Longitude:

68° 00' 55.0" E

68.01528°

Accurate to 50m

Altitude:

Not recorded

Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:

Georeferenced Satellite Image

Source Name:

SPOT 5 11 January 2004

Source Identifier:

Satellite image ( Satellite Image Catalogue - Scene Id sp5xi10_265498_110104_ortho.bil not in the Satellite Image Catalogue. )

Source Scale:

1:25000

Source Institution:

Australian Antarctic Division

Source Person:

Brolsma

Source Publisher:

CNES

Remote sensing:

Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:

Official

Date approved:

18-May-1971

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