SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Glavnyj Island

Glavnyj Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Glavnyj Island (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 5373
Name ID: 788

Feature type: Island

Origin

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

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Glavnyj, ostrov (Russia)

Narrative

Glavnyj Island lies within Lake Figurnoe in the Bunger Hills. There are two small spits on the south-western side. The island has steep slopes up from the shore on all sides and cliffs on the south-eastern shore. The island was charted by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956.

Named For

Location

Latitude:

66° 18' 12.9" S

-66.30358°

Accurate to 50m

Longitude:

100° 44' 03.7" E

100.73436°

Accurate to 50m

Altitude:

72 m

Accurate to 10m

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:

Satellite Image

Source Name:

Landsat Image Mosaic Antarctica (LIMA)

Source Identifier:

LIMA_E164_CIR_432_1X

Source Scale:

1:10000

Source Institution:

Australian Antarctic Division

Source Person:

Brolsma

Source Publisher:

United States Geological Survey (USGS)

Remote sensing:

Not Applicable

Comments

Altitude from Russian map Q-47_82_B (SCAR map cat 2986)

Approval status

Status:

Official

Date approved:

7-Mar-1991

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