Name details

Kirchner Peak

Kirchner Peak (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Kirchner Peak  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 138235

Feature type: Peak

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

A somewhat isolated peak, 1170 m, located 4.4 km NNE of Gaylord Ridge in Nebraska Peaks.

Named For

Named by US-ACAN after J.F. Kirchner, a member of the USARP geophysical field party during the Ross Ice Shelf Project, 1974-75 and 1976-77 seasons.

Location

Latitude:
79° 59' 17.9" S
-79.98830°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
159° 23' 27.0" E
159.39083°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Unknown
Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
1:50000
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Unknown
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
18-Jul-2017

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