Name details

Angle Peak

Angle Peak (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Angle Peak  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 107527

Feature type: Peak

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

rising to c. 800m, S of Odom Inlet, Black Coast, was photographed from the air by USN in 1966 and surveyed from the ground by BAS from Stonington Island , 1972-73; named after J. Phillip Angle, of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, ornithologist aboard Croatan in Drake Passage, 1965, and aboard Eastwind in Drake Passage, Weddell Sea and off the Antarctic Peninsula, 1966; joint author (with George E. Watson) of Birds of the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic (American Geophysical Union, Washington DC, 1975) (BAS 250 sheet SR 19-20/16, 1-DOS 1976; APC, 1977, p.3).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
71° 44' 00.0" S
-71.73333°
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Longitude:
62° 00' 00.0" W
-62.00000°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Images

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Map

Source

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

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
21-Jul-1976

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