SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Mule Island

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

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

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Place ID: 9945
Name ID: 885

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:

Mule Island (United States of America)
Muløy (Russia)

Narrative

A small island about 1 km long and up to 0.5 km wide, off the southern part of the Vestfold Hills.

Named For

Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called mulxy (Snout Island) by Norwegian cartographers.

Location

Latitude:

68° 38' 47.4" S

-68.64650°

Accurate to 30m

Longitude:

77° 49' 38.3" E

77.82731°

Accurate to 30m

Altitude:

33.5 m

Accurate to 5m

Images

©AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1973

Catalogue id: 885B1
Photographer: Rounsevell, David E (Dave)

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

Related information

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