Name details

Mount Weir

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

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

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 114700

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 steep section of polar plateau escarpment, with almost all of the rock exposed, facing north-east at the head of one of the tributaries of the Ramsey Glacier, about 24 miles west of Mt Rosenwald in the Bush Mountains. Discovered and photographed by US Navy Operation Highjump, 1946-47, on the flights of 16 February 1947 and named by the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Place Names for Major Robert R Weir, USMC, pilot of Flight 8A.

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Location

Latitude:
84° 59' 00.0" S
-84.98333°
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Longitude:
177° 10' 00.0" E
177.16667°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Map

Source

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Remote sensing:
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Approval status

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