Name details

Mount Light

Light, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Mount Light  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 109830

Feature type: Mountain

Origin

This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

one of the Hutton Mountains, Lassiter Coast, rising to 1010m, was surveyed by FIDS-RARE from "Stonington Island" in December 1947; photographed from the air by USN, 1965-67, and mapped from air photographs by USGS; named after Dr Richard Upjohn Light (b.1902), President, American Geographical Society, NY, 1947-56, whose name was originally applied to the N extremity of Smith Peninsula (Cape Fiske, q.v.) (USGS sketch map Ellsworth Land-Palmer Land, 1969; APC, 1975, p.4; BAS 500P sheet 17-20/SE, 1981).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
74° 16' 00.0" S
-74.26667°
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Longitude:
61° 59' 00.0" W
-61.98333°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
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Source Name:
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Source Institution:
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Source Person:
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Source Publisher:
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Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
20-Dec-1974

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