Name details

Mount Grendal

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

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

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 113436

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 peak rising to 2,000m between the heads of Valhalla Glacier and Conrow Glacier in the Asgard Range, Victoria Land. Mapped by the USGS in 1962 from U.S. Navy aerial photographs taken 1947-59. Named by the NZ-APC in 1983 from association with Mount Beowulf (q.v.) after Grendal (Grendel), the monster in the Old English epic poem Beowulf.

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Location

Latitude:
77° 34' 00.0" S
-77.56667°
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Longitude:
162° 00' 00.0" E
162.00000°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Map

Source

Location Method:
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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:
1-Jan-1982

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