Name details

Saxby Range

Saxby Range (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Saxby Range  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 139536

Feature type: Range

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 broad mountain range approximately 71km long northwest to southeast, rising to 2450m, in the Victory Mountains of Victoria Land, and bounded by Jutland Glacier, Tucker Glacier, Pearl Harbor Glacier, and Midway Glacier.

Named For

Named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) in 1982 after Eric Saxby, field leader and coordinator of NZ projects during the International Northern Victoria Land Project, 1981-82

Location

Latitude:
72° 04' 00.0" S
-72.06667°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
167° 08' 00.0" E
167.13333°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
2160 m
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
NZMS 166 1:250k topographic series
Source Identifier:
SS 58-60/2 : 1967 1st ed.
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Lands and Survey
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Height at reference point

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
18-Apr-1994

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