Tonagh Promontory
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| Coordinates | 69 ° 26 ′ S , 76 ° 1 ′ E | |
| location | Princess Elisabeth Land | |
| coast | Ingrid Christensen Coast | |
| Waters | Prydz Bay | |
| Waters 2 | Webster Bay | |
The Tonagh Promontory is the westernmost of two peninsulas southwest of the Stornes peninsula on the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . It protrudes from the Larsemann Hills into Prydz Bay .
Norwegian cartographers, who named it in connection with the Priddy Promontory as the Storneskloa , mapped it on the basis of aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it in 1988 after Lieutenant Leslie Tonagh of the Royal Australian Army Service Corps , who had carried out the first landing on Jesson Island on February 7, 1958 as driver of a DUKW .
Web links
- Tonagh Promontory in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
- Geological map of the Stornes Peninsula (PDF) at the Australian Antarctic Data Center (description)