SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Kazak Island

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

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

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Place ID: 7402
Name ID: 799

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:

Kazak, ostrov (Russia)

Narrative

An island about 1 km south of Mule Island, off the southern part of the Vestfold Hills. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956 and ANARE in 1957 and 1958.

Named For

Named Ostrov Kazak (Cossack Island) by the Soviet Expedition.

Location

Latitude:

68° 39' 47.9" S

-68.66331°

Accurate to 30m

Longitude:

77° 50' 15.0" E

77.83750°

Accurate to 30m

Altitude:

33 m

Accurate to 5m

Images

©Belinda Reynolds 2009

Catalogue id: IA21908
Caption: Kazak Island, Vestfold Hills. Taken from helicopter at height of 2800 feet. Looking South.
Photographer: Reynolds, Belinda

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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