SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Keuken Island

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

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

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Place ID: 7486
Name ID: 797

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:

Keuken Rock (United States of America)

Narrative

A small island 1 km west of Gardner Island, off the Vestfold Hills. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37).

Named For

Named after J. Keuken, weather observer (radio) at Davis in 1959.

Location

Latitude:

68° 34' 27.1" S

-68.57419°

Accurate to 30m

Longitude:

77° 49' 56.3" E

77.83231°

Accurate to 30m

Altitude:

16 m

Accurate to 5m

Images

©Nathan Saunders 2009

Catalogue id: IA21909
Caption: Keuken Island, 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

Metadata for coordinates and origin of topographic data.

Approval status

Status:

Official

Date approved:

4-Jul-1961

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