Name details

Mount Brigham

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

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

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 136660

Feature type: None recorded.

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 at the centre of Gonville and Caius Range, Victoria Land, rising to 1450m, 4km west south-west of Mount Curtiss. Topographic map: Debenham 2d (1:50,000). Named by US-ACAN (2007) after Captain Lawson W. Brigham, U.S. Coast Guard, (Retired), Commanding Officer of USCGC Polar Sea in Antarctic and Arctic Waters, 1993-95; later researcher at Scott Polar Research Institute.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
77° 07' 00.0" S
-77.11667°
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Longitude:
162° 18' 00.0" E
162.30000°
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Altitude:
1450 m
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Map

Source

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

Comments

new adopted name (Wendy, 13.6.08)

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
7-Apr-2008

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