Name details

Mount Bird

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

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

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 1655

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:

Mount Bird (Russia)

Narrative

An outcrop about 19 km SSW of Mount Rubin in the southern Princes Charles Mountains. It is about 9.5 km long and 2.5-4.0 km wide and has two peaks. It is oriented in a SSW-NNE direction. Plotted from air photographs taken from an ANARE aircraft in 1956. Named after I G Bird, electronics engineer at Mawson in 1960.

Named For

Location

Latitude:

73° 44' 38.4" S

-73.74400°

Accurate to 150m

Longitude:

64° 53' 30.1" E

64.89169°

Accurate to 150m

Altitude:

1700 m

Accurate to 100m

Images

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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:

4-Jul-1961

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