SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Skagen Point

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

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

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Place ID: 13353
Name ID: 2159

Feature type: Point

Origin

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

Narrative

A prominent rocky point at the north-western extremity of Bell Bay in Kemp Land. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Skagen by Norwegian cartographers. The name possibly comes from the feature of the same name in the extreme north of Denmark.

Named For

Location

Latitude:

67° 08' 57.0" S

-67.14917°

Accurate to 200m

Longitude:

58° 25' 24.0" E

58.42333°

Accurate to 200m

Altitude:

Not recorded

Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:

Satellite Image

Source Name:

LIMA - Landsat Image Mosaic Antarctica

Source Identifier:

Satellite image ( Satellite Image Catalogue - Scene Id E149_RGB_321_1X not in the Satellite Image Catalogue. )

Source Scale:

1:25000

Source Institution:

Australian Antarctic Division

Source Person:

Brolsma

Source Publisher:

USGS - United States Geological Survey

Remote sensing:

Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:

Official

Date approved:

31-Jul-1972

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