SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Stalker Hill

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

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

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Place ID: 13909
Name ID: 684

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

A steep rocky hill on the northern side of Lake Zvezda in the Vestfold Hills.

Named For

Named after John F. Stalker, Officer-in-Charge at Davis in 1972.

Location

Latitude:

68° 31' 29.6" S

-68.52489°

Accurate to 30m

Longitude:

78° 27' 43.2" E

78.46200°

Accurate to 30m

Altitude:

144 m

Accurate to 5m

Images

©Richard 'Tubby' Seton 2009

Catalogue id: IA21998
Caption: Stalker Hill, Vestfold Hills. Taken from helicopter at height of 1200 feet. Looking Northeast.
Photographer: Seton, Richard

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:

Unknown

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