Name details

Mount Hunt

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

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

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 1384

Feature type: Mountain

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

A dome-shaped mountain about 518 m high, surmounting the promontory which terminates in Cape de la Motte on the Coast of George V Land. Discovered by AAE (1911-14) under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it after H.A. Hunt, (then) Director of the Australian Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
67° 02' 13.0" S
-67.03694°
Accurate to 3000m
Longitude:
144° 20' 19.0" E
144.33861°
Accurate to 3000m
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:
Satellite Image
Source Name:
Landsat Image Mosaic Antarctica (LIMA)
Source Identifier:
E127_CIR_432_1X
Source Scale:
1:25000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Not clear which rock outcrop the mountain is on.

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
24-Nov-1961

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