Name details

Campbell Crest

Campbell Crest (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Campbell Crest  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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United States Gazetteer Id 123246

Feature type: None recorded.

Origin

This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

A peak rising to 1,670 m at the W end of Bowditch Crests, Bermel Peninsula (q.v.), on the Bowman Coast of Graham Land. The feature is the highest point in Bowditch Crests and appears in aerial photographs taken by Sir Hubert Wilkins, 1928, and Lincoln Ellsworth, 1935; roughly mapped from the Ellsworth photographs by W.L.G. Joerg in 1937. Later photographed from the air by USAS, 1940, and U.S. Navy, 1966; surveyed by FIDS, 1958. Named by UK-APC in 1993 after Jon C. Campbell, geographer, U.S. Geological Survey from 1981; USGS member in the International GPS Campaign, 1991-92, at McMurdo, Byrd, and South Pole Stations who conducted developmental GPS geodetic surveys from USCGC Polar Sea at Mount Siple and Pine Island Bay; from 1993, Secretary, Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, U.S. Board on Geographic Names.

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Location

Latitude:
68° 30' 00.0" S
-68.50000°
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Longitude:
65° 27' 00.0" W
-65.45000°
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Altitude:
1670 m
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Map

Source

Location Method:
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Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

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Approval status

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Date approved:
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