Name details

Linnaeus Terrace

Linnaeus Terrace (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Linnaeus Terrace  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 140055

Feature type: Terrace

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 rock terrace on the north side of Oliver Peak in the Asgard Range, Victoria Land. The feature is encompassed by ASPA 138. Feature depicted on: NZ AntTopo50-MF08

Named For

Mapped by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) from U.S. Navy (USN) aerial photographs taken 1970. The name was proposed to Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) by E. Imre Friedmann, biologist, Florida State University, who established a U.S. Antarctic Research Program (USARP) field camp on this terrace in December 1980 for the study of microbial flora living in rocks. Named after Carolus Linnaeus (Karl von Linne, 1707-78), Swedish botanist, the first to enunciate the principles for defining genera and species and to adhere to a uniform use of the binomial system for naming plants and animals.

Location

Latitude:
77° 35' 51.5" S
-77.59763°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
161° 04' 49.2" E
161.08032°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
1610 m
Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
LINZ AntTopo50 series
Source Identifier:
MF08 : Edition 1.00 Published 2012
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
LINZ
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Height at reference point

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
24-May-2018

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