Name details

Horseshoe Mountain

Horseshoe Mountain (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Horseshoe Mountain  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 113577

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 horseshoe-shaped mountain, 2370m high, approximately 4.3km west-southwest of Mount Fleming, near the edge of the polar plateau and north of the head of the Taylor Glacier in Victoria Land.

Named For

Discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition (Discovery Expedition, BrNAE), 1901-04, which named the feature because of its shape.

Location

Latitude:
77° 34' 11.5" S
-77.56987°
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Longitude:
159° 56' 23.5" E
159.93986°
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Altitude:
2372 m
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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 18_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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