Abernethy Flats
Coordinates: 63 ° 52 ′ S , 57 ° 54 ′ W
The Abernethy Flats are one of a water braid laced gravel plain at the head of Brandy Bay on James Ross Island on the northeastern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula .
It was geodetically surveyed by the Falkland Island Dependencies Survey between 1952 and 1954. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the plane on April 2, 1984 after Thomas Abernethy (1802–1860), gunner on the HMS Erebus during the Antarctic expedition (1839–1843 ).
Web links
- Abernethy Flats in Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Abernethy Flats on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 2 (English).