Name details

Mount Daynes

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

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

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 140239

Feature type: Mountain

Origin

This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

Locally prominent peak rising to 936 m at the south-eastern end of the promontory between Boydell and Sj gren glaciers.

Named For

Named for Roger Daynes (b.1942), meteorologist and BC at Halley 1971-73. Co-founder, owner and Director of Snowsled Ltd 2000-16, Manufacturers of Nansen sledges and pyramid tents for BAS since 1988 and designers and suppliers of polar equipment to many national polar research programmes and expeditions.

Location

Latitude:
64° 12' 12.0" S
-64.20333°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
59° 06' 35.0" W
-59.10972°
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Altitude:
936 m
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
USGS Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica and SCAR Antarctic Digital Database in UK APC GIS, 30 m resolution
Source Identifier:
https://apc.antarctica.ac.uk/
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
British Antarctic Survey
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
8-Nov-2018

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