Name details

Mount Merrick

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

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

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 1643

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

One of the Raggatt Mountains, Enderby Land. Plotted from air photographs taken from ANARE aircraft in 1956 and 1957. Altitude derived from 1:250,000 map Simpson Peak, Sheet SQ38-39/15, Map 104 in the map catalogue.

Named For

Named after Robert William Merrick, geophysicist at Mawson in 1960.

Location

Latitude:
67° 42' 00.0" S
-67.70000°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
49° 17' 00.0" E
49.28331°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
1120 m
Accurate to 150m

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Unknown
Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Unknown
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
24-Nov-1961

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