Name details

Mount Gauss

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

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

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 113379

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.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

A massif with a cap of black rock, rising to approximately 1131m and lying due north of Mount Chetwynd on the southern side of the Mawson Glacier in the Prince Albert Mountains of Victoria Land. Feature shown on: NZ AntTopo50-MB08

Named For

Discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition (Discovery Expedition, BrNAE), 1901-04, which named this mountain for Professor Karl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician and astronomer, who calculated the position of the Magnetic Pole in 1838-39.

Location

Latitude:
76° 18' 52.1" S
-76.31446°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
162° 01' 47.2" E
162.02979°
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Altitude:
1131 m
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica, Howat et al. 2018
Source Identifier:
REMA 8m tile 16_35 release 1.1
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Polar Geospatial Center
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
1-Jan-1958

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