Cape Goodenough

Goodenough, Cape (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Cape Goodenough  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 5485
Name ID: 246

Feature type: Cape

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:

Narrative

An ice-covered cape on the western side of Porpoise Bay, on the Banzare Coast, Wilkes Land. Discovered by BANZARE (1929-31) during an aeroplane flight on 15 January, 1931. Named by Sir Douglas Mawson after Adm. Sir William Goodenough, President of the Royal Geographical Society, 1930-33.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
66° 15' 03.0" S
-66.25083°
Accurate to 400m
Longitude:
126° 14' 32.0" E
126.24222°
Accurate to 400m
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:
Satellite Image
Source Name:
Australian Antarctic Territory Coastline 2003
Source Identifier:
Metadata ( AAT_Coastline_2003 - Australian Antarctic Territory Coastline 2003 )
Source Scale:
1:25000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
Geoscience Australia
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
Unknown

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