Name details

Mount Menzies

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

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

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United States Gazetteer Id 128802

Feature type: Mountain (2a)

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

The culminating peak (3,355 m) on the large massif between Mounts Mather and Bayliss, standing on the S side of Fisher Glacier in the Prince Charles Mountains. Sighted by Flying Officer J. Seaton from ANARE aircraft in 1956. Mapped by an ANARE party under K.B. Mather in 1957-58. Named by ANCA for Robert Gordon Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
73° 30' 00.0" S
-73.50000°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
61° 50' 00.0" E
61.83333°
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Altitude:
3355 m
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Images


©AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1960
Catalogue id
4626A1
Photographer
Newton, Geoffrey (Geoff)

Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
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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-1961

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