Doggers Bay

Doggers Bay (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Doggers Bay  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 3730
Name ID: 84

Feature type: Bay

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 bay about 30 km long and 9 km wide on the western side of the Amery Ice Shelf, between Foley promontory and Landon Promontory. Plotted from air photographs taken from ANARE aircraft in 1956,. First visited in November, 1962, by an ANARE dog-sledge party, led by I Landon-Smith, which made a reconnaissance for a route from the plateau on to the Amery Ice Shelf. Named after the dog-sledge party.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
69° 05' 00.0" S
-69.08333°
Accurate to 200m
Longitude:
69° 06' 00.0" E
69.10000°
Accurate to 200m
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:
Satellite Image
Source Name:
LIMA - Landsat Image Mosaic Antarctica
Source Identifier:
Satellite image ( Satellite Image Catalogue - Scene Id E151_RGB_321_1X not in the Satellite Image Catalogue. )
Source Scale:
1:30000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
USGS
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
Unknown

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