Name details

McCarthy Nunatak

McCarthy Nunatak (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

McCarthy Nunatak  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 1889

Feature type: Nunatak

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 small nunatak, the top of which is almost at the same level as the surrounding plateau, about 9 km SSE of Depot Peak, Mac.Robertson Land. Discovered from an ANARE aircraft in 1970. Named after I. McCarthy, senior weather observer at Mawson in 1970, a member of the ANARE Prince Charles Mountains survey party in 1971.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
69° 06' 51.6" S
-69.11433°
Accurate to 200m
Longitude:
64° 49' 23.1" E
64.82308°
Accurate to 200m
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
LIMA - Landsat Image Mosaic Antarctica
Source Identifier:
Satellite image ( Satellite Image Catalogue - Scene Id E151_RGB_321_1X not in the Satellite Image Catalogue. )
Source Scale:
1:30000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
USGS
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
Unknown

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