SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Mirny

Mirny (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Mirny (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 9647
Name ID: 2497

Feature type: Station

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:

Mirny Station (United States of America)
Mirnyj, nauchnaja stancija /SSSR/ (Russia)

Narrative

The base of the Soviet Antarctic Expedition on the coast of Queen Mary Land, just south of Haswell Island. The station was established early in 1956. Named after the sloop Mirny, one of the ships of the Bellingshausen Expedition (1819-21).

Named For

Location

Latitude:

66° 33' 09.9" S

-66.55275°

Accurate to 200m

Longitude:

93° 00' 32.9" E

93.00914°

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 E163_RGB_321_1X not in the Satellite Image Catalogue. )

Source Scale:

1:15000

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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