Name details

Haslum Crag

Haslum Crag (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Haslum Crag  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 109228

Feature type: Crag

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 170m at NE end of Snow Hill Island (q.v.), was surveyed by SwAE which established a winter station nearby in February 1902; called descriptively Basaltspitze [=basalt peak] or Die Basaltspitze (Nordenskjöld, 1911b, Fig.2, Tafel 11 facing p.200; Tafel 12, facing p.202). Basalt Peak (Taylor, 1950, p.53). The feature was resurveyed by FIDS from "Hope Bay" in September 1952 and named Haslum Crag after H.J. Haslum (b. 1856), Second Mate in the SwAE ship Antarctic, 1901-04 (APC, 1958, p.5; DOS 610 sheet W 64 56, 1961).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
64° 21' 38.0" S
-64.36056°
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Longitude:
56° 58' 00.0" W
-56.96667°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Map

Source

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

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
4-Sep-1957

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