Name details

Mount Riiser-Larsen

Riiser-Larsen, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Mount Riiser-Larsen  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 1609

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 prominent peak of the Tula Mountains, on the eastern side of Amundsen Bay in Enderby Land. Discovered on 13 or 14 January, 1930, by BANZARE (1929-31). Named lby Sir Douglas Mawson after Capt. Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, leader of a Norwegian expedition in the Norvegia (1929-30), which also explored the area. An ANARE party led by Phillip Law made a landing from a motor-launch at the foot of the mountain on 14 February, 1958.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
66° 46' 17.7" S
-66.77158°
Accurate to 20m
Longitude:
50° 46' 12.8" E
50.77022°
Accurate to 20m
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images


©AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1961
Catalogue id
4631C3
Photographer
Newton, Geoffrey (Geoff)

Map

Source

Location Method:
Surveyed
Source Name:
AADCC Survey Control Data Base
Source Identifier:
Survey Control ( NMS220 - Mount Riiser-Larsen)
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
Australian Antarctic Division
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
Unknown

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