Name details

Mount Thomas

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

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

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 1543

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 mainly snow-covered rock feature, about 13 km north of Mount Hicks in the Prince Charles Mountains. The feature has a domed appearance, with a ridge easterly to a small peak. Plotted from ANARE air photographs taken in 1960. Named after I.N. Thomas, radio officer-in-charge at Wilkes in 1963.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
71° 01' 42.0" S
-71.02833°
Accurate to 200m
Longitude:
64° 40' 01.0" E
64.66694°
Accurate to 200m
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:
Satellite Image
Source Name:
LIMA - Landsat Image Mosaic Antarctica
Source Identifier:
Satellite image ( Satellite Image Catalogue - Scene Id E132_RGB_321_1X not in the Satellite Image Catalogue. )
Source Scale:
1:30000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
USGS - United States Geological Survey
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
Unknown

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