Name details

Mount Huxley

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

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

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 139645

Feature type: Peak

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 mountain at 1155m between lower Condit Glacier and Descent Glacier, marginal to Ferrar Glacier, at the north end of Royal Society Range, Victoria Land. Feature depicted on: NZ AntTopo50-MF09

Named For

Named in 1992 by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Leonard Huxley, editor of Scott's Last Expedition, two volumes, London, 1913. Volume I being the journals of Captain R.F. Scott, Royal Navy (RN), Volume II being the reports of journeys and scientific work undertaken by E.A. Wilson and the surviving members of the expedition. The work has long been acclaimed among narrative reports to come out of the heroic era.

Location

Latitude:
77° 51' 34.6" S
-77.85961°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
162° 51' 30.1" E
162.85835°
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Altitude:
1155 m
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
LINZ AntTopo50 series
Source Identifier:
MF09 : Edition 1.01 Published 2014
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
LINZ
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Coordinates also checked against REMA 8m tile 18_34

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
28-Sep-1992

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