Name details

Mount Rubin

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

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

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United States Gazetteer Id 131014

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

A large, gently domed mountain, with a long tail of moraine trending E, standing 16 mi WNW of Cumpston Massif in the Prince Charles Mountains. Photographed from the air by ANARE, 1956-58. Named by ANCA for American meteorologist Morton J. Rubin, U.S. Exchange Scientist to the Soviet Mirnyy Station during 1958; member of the U.S. Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, 1973-74.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
73° 25' 00.0" S
-73.41667°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
65° 40' 00.0" E
65.66667°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images


©AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1995
Catalogue id
2777D3
Caption
Possibly Mt Rubin
Photographer
Godbold, Mathew (Matt)

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-1961

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