Name details

Mount Liard

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

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

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 134318

Feature type: Mountain (2a)

Origin

This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

A peak 10km east of Mount Durnford in the Churchill Mountains. It rises to approximately 1685m on the ridge south of Cooper Snowfield.

Named For

Named after Theodore J Liard, Jr. (1918-2002), geographer with the Department of Interior and the Department of Defense in toponymic research for the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, 1949-80. Chief, Geographic Names Division, Defense Mapping Agency (now National Imagery and Mapping Agency), 1969-80.

Location

Latitude:
80° 58' 35.2" S
-80.97645°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
158° 51' 06.0" E
158.85167°
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Altitude:
1685 m
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica, Howat et al. 2018
Source Identifier:
REMA 8m tile 21_34 release 1.1
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Polar Geospatial Center
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

REMA orthometric height significantly lower than old USGS 250k map spot height of c.1770m

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
27-Feb-2003

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