Name details

Mount Manger

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

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

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 139952

Feature type: Knoll

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 snow-covered mountain 5.6km northwest of Mount Josephine in the Alexandra Mountains, on King Edward VII Land.

Named For

The mountain was photographed from the air and roughly mapped by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (ByrdAE), 1928-30. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (at the suggestion of R. Admiral R.E. Byrd) for William Manger, of the family that owned the Manger Hotel chain, who assisted Byrd expeditions by providing free room for office space and for expedition personnel.

Location

Latitude:
77° 29' 21.3" S
-77.48924°
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Longitude:
153° 15' 17.8" W
-153.25494°
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Altitude:
681 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 18_24 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:
15-Jul-1971

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