Name details

Mount Macdonald

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

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

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 113814

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 distinctive mountain about mid-way in distance between Dudley Head and Mt Donaldson in the Commonwealth Range. Standing about 3600m above sea-level on the ice-divide between the Pain Névé and the Beardmore Glacier. Surveyed by the Southern Party of the NZGSAE, 1961-62, and named fo the Hon T L MacDonald who was Minister of External Affairs and of Defence when the TAE, 1956-58, was being planned and who took a prominent part in obtaining New Zealand participation in the Antarctic.

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Location

Latitude:
84° 31' 00.0" S
-84.51667°
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Longitude:
173° 10' 00.0" E
173.16667°
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Altitude:
3600 m
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Map

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Remote sensing:
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