Name details

Mount Lassell

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

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

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 109748

Feature type: Mountain

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. 1300m near head of Neptune Glacier, E Alexander Island, was photographed from the air by RARE in 1947 and mapped from air photographs by FIDS in 1959; in association with the names of planets in this area, named after William Lassell (1799-1880), English astronomer who discovered Ariel (Mount Ariel, q.v.) and Umbriel (Mount Umbriel, q.v.), the satellites of Uranus, and Triton (Triton Point, q.v.), the satellite of Neptune ([in 71°45'S 68°50'W] APC, 1961, p.3; DOS 710 sheet 14, 1963; Searle, 1963, end map; [co-ordinates corrected from USLANDSAT imagery of January 1973] BAS 250P sheet SR 19-20/14, 1-DOS 1974; APC, 1977, p.19).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
71° 43' 00.0" S
-71.71667°
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Longitude:
68° 48' 00.0" W
-68.80000°
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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 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:
2-Mar-1961

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