Name details

Mount Randall

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

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

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 139671

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 mountain rising to 3050m at the south end of Hackerman Ridge in the Victory Mountains, Victoria Land. The mountain, which forms the summit area in this part of the ridge, 3.4km west of Mount Riddolls and 6.6km northeast of Mount Burrill.

Named For

Named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) in 1994 after Richard R. Randall, geographer and cartographer, Executive Secretary, U.S. Board on Geographic Names, 1973-93, whose office included responsibility for geographic nomenclature in Antarctica. Succeeding Meredith F. Burrill (Mount Burrill, q.v.) as Executive Secretary, Randall combined with Burrill to direct a half-century of American geographic names research. Name also associated with Mount Payne and Mount Yost.

Location

Latitude:
72° 48' 22.1" S
-72.80614°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
167° 40' 25.3" E
167.67369°
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Altitude:
3078 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_35 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:
18-Apr-1994

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