SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Redfearn Island

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

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

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Place ID: 11961
Name ID: 898

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:

Redfearn Island (United States of America)

Narrative

An island off the western end of Broad Peninsula, Vestfold Hills, just west of Warriner Island. The region was photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), ANARE (1954, 1957 and 1958) and the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956).

Named For

Named after H.T. Redfearn, diesel mechanic at Davis in 1961.

Location

Latitude:

68° 36' 46.4" S

-68.61289°

Accurate to 30m

Longitude:

77° 53' 15.7" E

77.88769°

Accurate to 30m

Altitude:

33 m

Accurate to 5m

Images

©Belinda Reynolds 2009

Catalogue id: IA21983
Caption: Redfearn Island, Vestfold Hills. Taken from helicopter at height of 2500 feet. Looking West.
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:

28-Jun-1962

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