SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Penguin Point

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

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

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Place ID: 11075
Name ID: 2174

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:

Penguin Point (Russia)
Penguin Point (United States of America)

Narrative

A granite point, about 97 m high, marking the western extremity of Murphy Bay, George V Land. Discovered and named by the eastern coastal party of AAE (1911-14) led by C.T. Madigan.

Named For

Location

Latitude:

67° 37' 04.1" S

-67.61781°

Accurate to 200m

Longitude:

146° 11' 06.8" E

146.18522°

Accurate to 200m

Altitude:

Not recorded

Unknown precision

Images

©AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1986

Catalogue id: 1856C3
Caption: Penguin Point looking east
Photographer: Reeves, Robert D (Bob)

Map

Source

Location Method:

Satellite Image

Source Name:

LIMA - Landsat Image Mosaic Antarctica

Source Identifier:

Satellite image ( Satellite Image Catalogue - Scene Id E127_RGB_321_1X not in the Satellite Image Catalogue. )

Source Scale:

1:50000

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:

Unknown

Related information

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