Name details

Mount Balchen

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

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

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 112712

Feature type: Mountain (2a)

Origin

This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

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Narrative

A most impressive mountain, 3087m high, seen from the Axel Heiberg Glacier, lying about 7 miles east of Mt Fridtjof Nansen, and overlooking the Axel Heiberg Icefalls. Surveyed and named by the Southern Party of the NZGSAE, 1961-62, for Berndt Balchen, pilot and companion of Amundsen on Artic flights and pilot of the Byrd South Pole flight of 1929 on which he flew down the Axel Heiberg Glacier.

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Location

Latitude:
85° 22' 00.0" S
-85.36667°
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Longitude:
166° 12' 00.0" W
-166.20000°
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Altitude:
3087 m
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Map

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Remote sensing:
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