SCAR Composite Gazetteer

McCarthy Point

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

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

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Place ID: 9228
Name ID: 2175

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 small rocky cape projecting from the ice plateau into the southern side of Wilcock Bay in the Larsemann Hills.

Named For

Named after Ian McCarthy, Meteorological Technical Officer during the 1987-88 summer field season, who contributed greatly to the success of work undertaken there.

Location

Latitude:

69° 27' 51.4" S

-69.46429°

Accurate to 25m

Longitude:

76° 03' 11.3" E

76.05313°

Accurate to 25m

Altitude:

18 m

Accurate to 10m

Images

©Rick Oates 2009

Catalogue id: IA21804
Caption: McCarthy Point, Larsemann Hills. Taken from helicopter at height of 1700 feet. Looking Northwest.
Photographer: Oates, Rick

Map

Source

Location Method:

Unknown

Source Name:

Larsemann Hills 1:25000 Topographic GIS Dataset

Source Identifier:

Lars25K

Source Scale:

1:25000

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:

29-Sep-1988

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