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Penney Ravine

Penney Ravine (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Penney Ravine (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 11084
Name ID: 2256

Feature type: Ravine

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:

Penney Ravine (United States of America)

Narrative

A ravine on Ardery Island, Windmill Islands, about 9 m wide and 73 m long. It is on the northern side of the island just west of the centre line. Discovered in February, 1960, by a biological field party from Wilkes. Named after R.L. Penney, biologist at Wilkes in 1959 and 1960.

Named For

Location

Latitude:

66° 22' 07.0" S

-66.36860°

Accurate to 30m

Longitude:

110° 27' 02.2" E

110.45060°

Accurate to 30m

Altitude:

25 m

Accurate to 5m

Images

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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:

Unknown

Related information

Biodiversity
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Place names
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