Name details

Mount Kosko

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

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

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 140384

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

A peak, 1793m above sea level, 11km north of Mount Keltie in the Conway Range, south of Mulock Glacier.

Named For

Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named by United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Arno Kosko, Ionosphere physicist in the winter party at Byrd Station in 1963.

Location

Latitude:
79° 08' 52.7" S
-79.14796°
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Longitude:
159° 33' 16.5" E
159.55458°
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Altitude:
1793 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 19_35 release 1.1
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Polar Geospatial Center
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
20-May-1965

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