Name details

Mount McCallum

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

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

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 113868

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 prominent peak rising to c. 2,200 m immediately NW of 2,590m Mount Marwick, in the Explorers Range, Bowers Mountains (q.v.) and 3 km NNW of Mt Sturm, Bowers Mountain. The naming was proposed by M.G. Laird, leader of a NZARP geological party to the area, 1981-82. Named after G. McCallum, a well known New Zealand scientist and mountaineer who died in an avalanche on Mount Ruapehu, N.Z., in 1981. He worked in Antarctica in the 1963-64 season.

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Location

Latitude:
71° 01' 00.0" S
-71.01667°
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Longitude:
162° 45' 00.0" E
162.75000°
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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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