SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Zashchitnyye Islands

Zashchitnyye Islands (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Zashchitnyye Islands (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 16447
Name ID: 860

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:

Zashchitnye, ostrova (Russia)

Narrative

A group of small islands off the northern coast of Long Peninsula, 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 after Ostrova Zashchitnyye (Protective Islands) by the Soviet Expedition.

Named For

Location

Latitude:

68° 25' 40.4" S

-68.42789°

Accurate to 30m

Longitude:

78° 15' 00.0" E

78.25000°

Accurate to 30m

Altitude:

16.5 m

Accurate to 5m

Images

©Rick Oates 2009

Catalogue id: IA22045
Caption: Zashchitnyye Islands, Vestfold Hills. Taken from helicopter at height of 1600 feet. Looking South.
Photographer: Oates, Rick

Map

Source

Location Method:

Topographic data

Source Name:

Vestfold Hills Topographic GIS Dataset

Source Identifier:

Metadata ( vest_hills_gis - Vestfold Hills 1:25000 Topographic GIS Dataset )

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:

27-Nov-1973

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