SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Cape Eolovyj

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

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

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Place ID: 4291
Name ID: 321

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:

Éolovyj, mys (Russia)

Narrative

Cape Eolovyj lies 3.5 km NNE of Oasis Station in the Bunger Hills. It forms the south-western cape of the long straight section of coast which forms the south-eastern shore of Rybii Khvost Gulf. The cape is formed of cliffs up to 25 m in height, where there is a shelf before rising steeply to 89 m. The cape was charted by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956.

Named For

Location

Latitude:

66° 14' 49.1" S

-66.24697°

Accurate to 50m

Longitude:

100° 47' 07.7" E

100.78547°

Accurate to 50m

Altitude:

89 m

Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:

Satellite Image

Source Name:

Landsat Image Mosaic Antarctica (LIMA)

Source Identifier:

LIMA_E164_CIR_432_1X

Source Scale:

1:10000

Source Institution:

Australian Antarctic Division

Source Person:

Brolsma

Source Publisher:

United States Geological Survey (USGS)

Remote sensing:

Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:

Official

Date approved:

7-Mar-1991

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