Name details

Mount Stump

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

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

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 139602

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 mostly ice-free mountain rising to 2490m, located 2km north-northeast of Mount Colbert and 4km east-northeast of Mount Borcik in the southeast part of Hays Mountains, Queen Maud Mountains.

Named For

Mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy (USN) aerial photographs, 1960-64. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) in association with Mount Colbert (q.v.) after Edmund Stump, geologist, Arizona State University. U.S. Antarctic Research Program (USARP) geological investigator at lower Shackleton Glacier (1970-71), Duncan Mountains (1974-75), Leverett Glacier (1977-78), Scott Glacier and Byrd Glacier (1978-79), and La Gorce Mountains (1980-81). Chief Scientist, International Northern Victoria Land Project (1981-82), additional investigations, McMurdo Dry Valleys, January 1983, Nimrod Glacier area, 1985-86.

Location

Latitude:
86° 10' 44.5" S
-86.17903°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
153° 07' 38.0" W
-153.12722°
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Altitude:
2455 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 27_29 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:
20-Nov-1980

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