Name details

Mount Southard

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

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

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 139426

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 pyramid-like mountain 11km northwest of Welcome Mountain (Ross Dependency), situated southwest of the Emlen Peaks in the upper Gressitt Glacier.

Named For

Plotted from air photographs taken by the US Navy in 1960-62. Named after R.B. Southard, Jnr., Chief of the Office of International Activities, US Geological Survey, who was in charge of USGS field parties that went to Antarctica in 1961-64.

Location

Latitude:
72° 10' 30.0" S
-72.17499°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
159° 55' 46.2" E
159.92951°
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Altitude:
2275 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 12_37 release 1.1
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Polar Geospatial Center
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Height at reference point

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
16-Jul-1964

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