Name details

Mount Rubin

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

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

If this information is incorrect, please e-mail mapping@aad.gov.au

Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 1612

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 large, gently domed mountain, with a long tail of moraine, north-west of Patrick Point and south-west of Mount Stinear in the southern Prince Charles Mountains. Photographed by ANARE aircraft in 1956, 1957 and 1958.Named after Morton Rubin, United States observer at the Soviet station, Mirny, in 1958.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
73° 26' 15.4" S
-73.43761°
Accurate to 150m
Longitude:
65° 29' 33.7" E
65.49269°
Accurate to 150m
Altitude:
1560 m
Accurate to 20m

Images


©AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1995
Catalogue id
2777D3
Caption
Possibly Mt Rubin
Photographer
Godbold, Mathew (Matt)

Map

Source

Location Method:
Satellite Image
Source Name:
Landsat Image Mosaic Antarctica (LIMA)
Source Identifier:
E132_CIR_432_1X
Source Scale:
1:25000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
22-Jul-1959

Display Scales

Note These display scales were chosen for use by Australia, with an emphasis on East Antarctica.
          For example, selecting 'Aus_display_scale_20M' would only return names that would appear on a 1:20 million scale map.

Aus_display_scale_20M: No      Aus_display_scale_10M: No     
Aus_display_scale_5M: No      Aus_display_scale_2M: Yes     
Aus_display_scale_1M: Yes      Aus_display_scale_500k: Yes     
Aus_display_scale_250k: Yes      Aus_display_scale_100k: Yes     
Aus_display_scale_50k: Yes      Aus_display_scale_25k: No     
Aus_display_scale_10k: No      Aus_display_scale_5k: No     
Aus_display_scale_1k: No     


Related information

Biodiversity
View fauna, flora or both within 1.0 degree of this location

Place names
View Australian or international place names within 1.0 degree of this location.