Name details

Sweeney Mountains

Sweeney Mountains (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Sweeney Mountains  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 111486

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 1705m N of Cape Zumberge, Orville Coast, and including from W to E Morgan Nunataks, Mount Smart, Mount Ballard, Mount Edward, Mount Jenkins, Potter Peak, Anderson Nunataks and Hagerty Peak, were seen from the air by RARE, 21 November 1947, and named Catherine Sweeney Mountains (AGS, map, 1948) or Sweeney Mountains ([in 75°45'S 67°40'W] Ronne, 1948b, map p.357; 1949, photograph p.228; USHO chart 6638, 1955; [co-ordinates corrected] USGS sketch map Ellsworth Land-Palmer Land, 1969; APC, 1975, p.5; BAS 500P sheet SS 17-20/SE, 1-DOS 1981), after Mrs Edward C. Sweeney of Washington, DC, a contributor to RARE. Montes Sweeney (Argentina. MM chart N-"P"-1, 1952; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.271). Sweeney-Ketten, Sweeney-Gebirge (Kosack, 1955a, p.229 and end map). Gory Suini (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). The mountains were surveyed from the ground on US Antarctic Peninsula Traverse, 1961-62, and photographed from the air by USN, 1965-67. Sweeny [sic] Mountains (Williams and others, 1972, map Fig.2, p.145). Montañas Sweeny [sic], in error (Chile. IHA, 1974, p.178). "Jamesway Camp", referring to a field camp on the S side of the mountains from the type of hut used (Thomson, 1980, map p.29).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
75° 10' 00.0" S
-75.16667°
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Longitude:
69° 35' 00.0" W
-69.58333°
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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:
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Source Publisher:
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Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
20-Dec-1974

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