SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Boulder Hill

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

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

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Place ID: 1656
Name ID: 701

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 big hill (158.0 m) that overlooks the eastern end of Crooked Lake, in the Vestfold Hills. The summit is probably the highest isolated rock feature in the Vestfold Hills. A survey station NM/S 261 (a brass pin in the rock) was established in January 1979.

Named For

A huge boulder lies perched some 50-100 m south-east of the station mark. It measures approximately 4 m high by 3 m long by 3 m wide and is conspicuously silhouetted from almost all aspects.

Location

Latitude:

68° 36' 18.4" S

-68.60511°

Accurate to 30m

Longitude:

78° 30' 03.2" E

78.50089°

Accurate to 30m

Altitude:

157 m

Accurate to 5m

Images

©Nathan Saunders 2009

Catalogue id: IA21851
Caption: Boulder Hill, Vestfold Hills. Taken from helicopter at height of 1200 feet. Looking East.
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

Metadata for coordinates and origin of topographic data.

Approval status

Status:

Official

Date approved:

26-Jul-1983

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