Gilchrist Beach
| Gilchrist Beach | ||
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| location | Heard ( Heard and McDonald Islands ) | |
| Waters | Indian Ocean | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ S , 73 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 1.5 km | |
The Gilchrist Beach is a 1.5 km long gravel beach on the north side of the island Heard in the southern Indian Ocean . It extends west of the Compton Glacier .
The beach had been known as Rocky Beach and Stoney Beach among US seal hunters since at least 1860 . The name we use today goes back to participants in a campaign as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions , which surveyed Heard Island in 1948. It is named after Alan R. Gilchrist, the doctor on this research trip.
Web links
- Gilchrist Beach in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gilchrist Beach on geographic.org (English)