Name details

MacDonald Peak

MacDonald Peak (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

MacDonald Peak  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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United States Gazetteer Id 128279

Feature type: Peak (2d)

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

Peak, 1,940 m, midway between Shockey Peak and Mount Crawford near the N end of the main ridge of the Sentinel Range. Discovered by Lincoln Ellsworth on his trans-Antarctic flight of Nov. 23, 1935. Named by the US-ACAN (1961) for William R. MacDonald of the Branch of Special Maps, USGS, which prepared the 1962 map of this range. Subsequently, MacDonald participated in numerous expeditions to Antarctica to supervise aerial photography used in preparing USGS maps of the continent. At the time of his death (1977) he was Chief of the Branch of International Activities, USGS, and a member of the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, of the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
77° 40' 00.0" S
-77.66667°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
86° 40' 00.0" W
-86.66667°
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Altitude:
1940 m
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Unknown
Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
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Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Unknown
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
1-Jan-1961

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