SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Poseidon Basin

Poseidon Basin (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Poseidon Basin (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 11501
Name ID: 35

Feature type: Basin

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Narrative

A roughly oval-shaped basin in the Vestfold Hills with a lake in the bottom and cliffs all round. The lake measures about 500 m wide and 1 km long.

Named For

Named after the Greek God of the Sea as the basin has marine sediments in it.

Location

Latitude:

68° 36' 57.6" S

-68.61600°

Accurate to 30m

Longitude:

78° 09' 07.9" E

78.15219°

Accurate to 30m

Altitude:

0 m

Unknown precision

Images

©Belinda Reynolds 2009

Catalogue id: IA21980
Caption: Poseidon Basin, Vestfold Hills. Taken from helicopter at height of 1000 feet. Looking South.
Photographer: Reynolds, Belinda

Map

Source

Location Method:

Topographic data

Source Name:

Vestfold Hills Topographic GIS Dataset

Source Identifier:

vest_hills_gis

Source Scale:

1:5000

Source Institution:

Australian Antarctic Division

Source Person:

Brolsma

Source Publisher:

Australian Antarctic Division

Remote sensing:

Not Applicable

Comments

Metadata for coordinates and origin of topographic data.

Approval status

Status:

Official

Date approved:

26-Jul-1983

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