Name details

Taylor Dome

Taylor Dome (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Taylor Dome  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 140113

Feature type: Dome

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

An elliptical ice dome up to 80km long east-southeast to west-northwest and 30km wide, rising to 2400m, northwest of Mount Crean, Lashly Mountains, Victoria Land.

Named For

The feature was delineated by the SPRI-NSF-TUD airborne radio echo sounding program, 1967-79. The name was first used by David J. Drewry of SPRI in 1980. The dome is one of the local sources of ice to the Taylor Glacier, from which it is named. Approved by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) in 1994.

Location

Latitude:
77° 50' 01.4" S
-77.83373°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
159° 02' 49.0" E
159.04695°
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Altitude:
2448 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 100m mosaic release 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

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
19-Dec-2019

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