Name details

Mount Weems

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

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

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United States Gazetteer Id 133531

Feature type: Mountain (2a)

Origin

This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

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Narrative

Prominent mountain, 2,210 m, located 8 mi N of Mount Ulmer near the N end of the Sentinel Range in the Ellsworth Mountains. Discovered by Lincoln Ellsworth on his trans-Antarctic flight of Nov. 23, 1935. Named by the US-ACAN for Capt. P.V.H. Weems, USN (Ret.), inventor and developer of air navigation instrumentation and techniques and consultant to Ellsworth on air navigation problems of this flight.

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Location

Latitude:
77° 27' 00.0" S
-77.45000°
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Longitude:
86° 10' 00.0" W
-86.16667°
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Altitude:
2210 m
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Map

Source

Location Method:
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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:
1-Jan-1961

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