Name details

Bates Nunataks

Bates Nunataks (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Bates Nunataks  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 139337

Feature type: Nunatak

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 group of isolated nunataks, the highest and most southerly rising to 1731m above sea level in the névé of the Byrd Glacier below the crest of the Polar Plateau.

Named For

Discovered by the Darwin Glacier Party of the TAE (1956-58). First named by the NZ Antarctic Place Names Committee after James "Jim" Gordon Bates, a member of the TAE, who accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary to the South Pole. Amended in 1965 to Nunataks plural, for all three features, in preparation for USGS mapping of the area.

Location

Latitude:
80° 15' 57.1" S
-80.26586°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
153° 32' 51.6" E
153.54766°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
1726 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_35 release 1.1
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Polar Geospatial Center
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Height on highest nunatak

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
20-May-1965

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