Name details

Mount Wishart

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

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

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 1430

Feature type: Mountain

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

A snow-covered mountain on the northern side of the Scylla Glacier in the Prince Charles Mountains. Plotted from ANARE air photographs.Named after E.R. Wishart, technical officer (glaciology) at Mawson in 1963. Altitude is for western end of the peak.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
70° 19' 06.2" S
-70.31839°
Accurate to 50m
Longitude:
65° 13' 13.8" E
65.22050°
Accurate to 50m
Altitude:
1642 m
Accurate to 50m

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Surveyed
Source Name:
AADC Survey Control Database
Source Identifier:
Survey Control ( NMS120 - Wishart)
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
National Mapping
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
Unknown

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