Name details

Mount Crean

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

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

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 140016

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

Massive, rocky mountain rising over 2700m, forming the central and highest summit of the Lashly Mountains, in Victoria Land.

Named For

Named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) for Petty Officer Thomas Crean, Royal Navy (RN), companion of Lashly with Scott's British National Antarctic Expedition (BrNAE) of 1901-04, and British Antarctic Expedition (BrAE), 1910-13.

Location

Latitude:
77° 52' 27.1" S
-77.87420°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
159° 31' 51.0" E
159.53084°
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Altitude:
2722 m
Unknown precision

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_35 release 1.1
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Polar Geospatial Center
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Height at highest part of feature. Reference point accords with spot height on 1:250k maps.

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
24-Jul-1959

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