Name details

Obrecht Pyramid

Obrecht Pyramid (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Obrecht Pyramid  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 110416

Feature type: Head

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. 600m on S side of Trail Inlet, Bowman Coast, was surveyed by FIDS from "Stonington Island", 1946-48; called by CAE Punta Alberto Obrecht after Alberto Obrecht, sometime Director of the Chilean Astronomical Observatory and a member of the Comisión Antártica Chilena of 1906 (Chile. DNH chart LIII, 1947; IHA, 1974, p.21); also called by AAE Punta Perito Moreno, after F.P. Moreno (Moreno Point, q.v.) (Argentina. IAA map, [1959b]); following geological work by BAS from "Stonington Island", 1963-65, named Obrecht Pyramid (APC, 1980, p.4).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
68° 09' 00.0" S
-68.15000°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
65° 32' 00.0" W
-65.53333°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
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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:
7-Feb-1978

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