Name details

Dufek Massif

Dufek Massif (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Dufek Massif  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 108583

Feature type: Massif

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 2030m W of Forrestal Range, N Pensacola Mountains, was seen from the air from a USN P2V Neptune patrol aircraft on a flight from McMurdo Sound to the Weddell Sea and back, 12 January 1956; named after Rear-Adm. George John Dufek, USN (1903-77), Commander, USN Task Force 43, ODF, 1955-59 (covering first aircraft landing at the South Pole, q.v.), and Officer-in-charge, USARP, 1957-58; navigator in USS Bear of USAS; Commander of icebreaker task force establishing weather stations in Canadian Arctic, 1946 and 1948; member of USN Operation "Highjump", 1946-47 (Rear-Adm. Richard E. Byrd); author of Operation Deepfreeze (New York, 1957) ([in c.81°15'S 42°00'W] NGS map, 1957b; [in c. 82°36'S 51°30'W] AGS map, 1962b; APC, 1962, p.11; [co-ordinates corrected] USGS sheets SU 21-25/9 and 10, 1969; APC, 1977, p.11); again seen from the air in October 1957 and surveyed from the ground in December 1957 by US IGY personnel from "Ellsworth Station" (Thiel and others, 1958, p.10, 12 and Fig. 9). Massiv Dyufek (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). Santa Teresila [sic] Range (Dufek Massif), referring to Argentine name (Ronne, 1961, map Frontispiece). Cordillera Santa Teresita, so called after St Theresa (Argentina. MM, NM 21/1.xi.1964; Pierrou, 1970, p.654). Massiv Dufek (Soviet Union. AA, 1966, Pl. 24). Macízo Santa Teresita (Argentina. MD, 1978, letter S).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
82° 36' 00.0" S
-82.60000°
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Longitude:
51° 49' 00.0" W
-51.81667°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
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Source Name:
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Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
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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:
31-Aug-1962

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