Name details

Gould Knoll

Gould Knoll (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Gould Knoll  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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United States Gazetteer Id 136060

Feature type: Knoll (2b)

Origin

This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Narrative

A mostly ice-covered rock knoll that rises on the E margin of Hale Glacier, Thurston Island, at the point the glacier enters Abbot Ice Shelf. Named by US-ACAN after William G. Gould, NOAA specialist, 1960s to the mid 1990s, in the archiving of Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer satellite images of the world, including those used for AVHRR image maps of the Antarctic continent.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
72° 14' 00.0" S
-72.23333°
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Longitude:
100° 35' 00.0" W
-100.58333°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Images

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Map

Source

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

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
1-Jan-2003

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