Name details

Mount Blowaway

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

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

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 139410

Feature type: Mountain

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 gneissic mountain in the Wilson Hills, north of DeRemer Nunataks, and 15.3km south of Celestial Peak in Oates Land.

Named For

So named by the New Zealand Geological and Survey Antarctic Expedition (1963-64) because three members of the party were forced to abandon their proposed survey and gravity station by a blizzard and after examining the geology sledged several kilometres back to their camp in thick drifting snow.

Location

Latitude:
69° 40' 41.1" S
-69.67808°
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Longitude:
158° 08' 25.7" E
158.14048°
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Altitude:
1316 m
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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 10_39 release 1.1
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Polar Geospatial Center
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

NULL

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
16-Jul-1964

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