Name details

Mount Roberts

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

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

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 110903

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 955m between Aitkenhead Glacier and Diplock Glacier, Trinity Peninsula, was surveyed by FIDS from "Hope Bay" in August 1945; named after Capt. David William Roberts (1886-1970) who, as Manager of the Falkland Islands Company in Stanley, 1939-49, was of assistance to FIDS (BA chart 3205, 12.ii.1954; APC, 1955, p.18; BAS 250 sheets SP 21-22/13 and SQ 21-22/1 (Ext.), 1-DOS 1974). Monte Roberts (Argentina. MM chart 124, 1957; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.243). The mountain was further surveyed by FIDS from "Hope Bay", 1960-61.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
64° 00' 00.0" S
-64.00000°
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Longitude:
58° 48' 00.0" W
-58.80000°
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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 Identifier:
Source Scale:
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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:
21-Nov-1949

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