Name details

Hooper Crags

Hooper Crags (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Hooper Crags (The name as it would appear on a map)

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United States Gazetteer Id 126678

Feature type: Crag (2b)

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:

Hooper Crags (New Zealand)

Narrative

A rocky spur 3 mi long, lying at the S side of Foster Glacier in the Royal Society Range. Named by US-ACAN in 1963 for Lt. Benjamin F. Hooper, helicopter pilot with U.S. Navy Squadron VX-6, who wintered at McMurdo Station in 1960.

Named For

Location

Latitude:

78° 25' 00.0" S

-78.41667°

Unknown precision

Longitude:

162° 43' 00.0" E

162.71667°

Unknown precision

Altitude:

Not recorded

Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:

Unknown

Source Name:

Unknown

Source Identifier:

Source Scale:

Unknown

Source Institution:

Unknown

Source Person:

Unknown

Source Publisher:

Unknown

Remote sensing:

Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:

Unknown

Date approved:

1-Jan-1963

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