SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Wilcock Bay

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

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

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Place ID: 16032
Name ID: 97

Feature type: Bay

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Narrative

A bay in the south-west part of the Larsemann Hills. Plotted by Norwegian cartographers from air photographers taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition 1936-37 and called Stornesbukta (Big Cape Bay).

Named For

Named after Arthur Wilcock, Secretary of the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia from 1952-57 and a member of the Committee until 1975.

Location

Latitude:

69° 27' 15.0" S

-69.45417°

Accurate to 25m

Longitude:

76° 05' 49.0" E

76.09694°

Accurate to 25m

Altitude:

0 m

Accurate to 10m

Images

©Rick Oates 2009

Catalogue id: IA21836
Caption: Wilcock Bay, Larsemann Hills. Taken from helicopter at height of 1500 feet. Looking North.
Photographer: Oates, Rick

Map

Source

Location Method:

Unknown

Source Name:

Larsemann Hills 1:25000 Topographic GIS Dataset

Source Identifier:

Lars25K

Source Scale:

1:25000

Source Institution:

Australian Antarctic Division

Source Person:

Brolsma

Source Publisher:

Australian Antarctic Division

Remote sensing:

Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:

Official

Date approved:

29-Sep-1988

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