Haswell Island

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

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

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Place ID: 6085
Name ID: 826

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:

Narrative

A rocky island about 1 km wide, 4 km off the coast of Queen Mary Land, just east of McDonald Bay.

Named For

Discovered by the Western Base Party of AAE (1911-14). Named by Sir Douglas Mawson after Prof. W.A. Haswell of Sydney, a member of the AAE Advisory Committee.

Location

Latitude:
66° 31' 33.1" S
-66.52586°
Accurate to 200m
Longitude:
92° 59' 38.4" E
92.99400°
Accurate to 200m
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images


©AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1985
Catalogue id
2084A1
Caption
Near Mirny
Photographer
Johnstone, Gavin W

Map

Source

Location Method:
Satellite Image
Source Name:
LIMA - Landsat Image Mosaic Antarctica
Source Identifier:
Satellite image ( Satellite Image Catalogue - Scene Id E163_RGB_321_1X not in the Satellite Image Catalogue. )
Source Scale:
1:15000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
USGS - United States Geological Survey
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
28-Nov-1955

Related information

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