SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Seal Cove

Seal Cove (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Seal Cove (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 12941
Name ID: 374

Feature type: Cove

Origin

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

Narrative

A cove on the eastern side of Fletcher Promontory in the Larsemann Hills, surrounded by extremely steep, often sheer-sided cliff faces.

Named For

A number of Weddel seals were observed in the cove by the 1986-87 ANARE summer party.

Location

Latitude:

69° 23' 07.0" S

-69.38529°

Accurate to 25m

Longitude:

76° 23' 59.0" E

76.39971°

Accurate to 25m

Altitude:

0 m

Accurate to 10m

Images

©Rick Oates 2009

Catalogue id: IA21818
Caption: Seal Cove, Larsemann Hills. Taken from helicopter at height of 1600 feet. Looking East.
Photographer: Oates, Rick

Map

Source

Location Method:

Unknown

Source Name:

Larsemann Hills 1:25000 Topographic GIS Dataset

Source Identifier:

Lars25K

Source Scale:

1:25000

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:

24-Nov-1987

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