SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Bunning Hill

Bunning Hill (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Bunning Hill (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 2051
Name ID: 663

Feature type: Hill

Origin

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

Narrative

The prominent bare hill which comprises the entire southern end of Gardner Island and is surmounted by a monumented survey control point. It is named as a memorial to Stephen Bunning, foreman of the Station Building Group who was critically injured in an explosion at Davis in October 1985 and who died while being evacuated.

Named For

Location

Latitude:

68° 34' 54.8" S

-68.58189°

Accurate to 25m

Longitude:

77° 52' 13.1" E

77.87031°

Accurate to 25m

Altitude:

48.5 m

Accurate to 5m

Images

©Nathan Saunders 2009

Catalogue id: IA21856
Caption: Bunning Hill, Vestfold Hills. Taken from helicopter at height of 2500 feet. Looking West.
Photographer: Saunders, Nathan

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

None

Approval status

Status:

Official

Date approved:

23-Apr-1996

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