Name details

Rudmose Rocks

Rudmose Rocks (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Rudmose Rocks  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 110969

Feature type: Rock

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

off-shore NNW of Cape Geddes, Laurie Island, forming W entrance point of Macdougal Bay, were charted by SNAE, 19 November 1903, and named after Dr Robert Neal Rudmose-Brown (1879-1957), naturalist on SNAE; member of Scottish expeditions to Spitsbergen (Svalbard), 1909, 1914 and 1919; Professor of Geography, University of Sheffield, 1931-45 (Bruce and others, chart, [1903c]; Bruce, 1905b, map facing p.322; BA chart 1775, 1938; APC, 1955, p.18). Rocas Rudmose (Argentina. CNA, 1947, map p.54; Pierrou, 1970, p.639).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
60° 41' 00.0" S
-60.68333°
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Longitude:
44° 34' 00.0" W
-44.56667°
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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 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:
8-Sep-1953

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