Wakefield Reef
| Wakefield Reef | ||
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| Waters | Indian Ocean | |
| archipelago | Heard and McDonald Islands | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 11 ′ S , 73 ° 21 ′ E | |
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The Wakefield Reef is a reef of 800 m in diameter in the archipelago of Heard Island and McDonald Islands in the southern Indian Ocean . It is 3.5 km west-south-west of Cape Arkona off the south-west side of Heard .
The reef is recorded for the first time in an imprecise location on a map from the 1860s to 1870s of American seal hunters . In April 1910, the crew of HMS Wakefield , after which the reef is named, carried out a more detailed mapping.
Web links
- Wakefield Reef in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wakefield Reef on geographic.org (English)