Name details

Halzen Mesa

Halzen Mesa (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Halzen Mesa  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 135653

Feature type: Mesa (2h)

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

An oblong island-like mesa, 7.7km long across its plateau, and rising to 1435m, being the largest and eastern-most of three mesas in the Insel Range, Victoria Land. The upper surface is relatively level but the periphery is marked by abrupt cliffs that rise 500, to 600m above the floor of Barwick Valley and McKelvey Valley. Feature shown on: NZ AntTopo50-ME08

Named For

Named by United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (2005) after Francis Halzen, Physics Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, who (1988) conceived of AMANDA, the Antarctic muon and neutrino detector array at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. United States Antarctic Program (USAP) principal investigator in a project to build the “IceCube” neutrino telescope at the South Pole Station in six field seasons beginning 2004-05.

Location

Latitude:
77° 23' 40.0" S
-77.39444°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
161° 26' 25.0" E
161.44028°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
1295 m
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
LINZ AntTopo50 series
Source Identifier:
ME08 : Edition 1.01 Published 2014
Source Scale:
1:50000
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
LINZ
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Height at reference point

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
20-Oct-2005

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