Name details

Mount Wood

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

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

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 1770

Feature type: Nunatak

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

An isolated nunatak lying northward of David Glacier and 21 km north-east of Mt Kring in Victoria Land.

Named For

Named by D B McC. Rainey of the Cartographic Branch of the New Zealand Dept of Lands and Survey. Named after the foster parents of Staff Sgt. Arthur L Kring, United States Marine Corps, navigator with the US Navy VX-6 Squadron which provided logistic support for the New Zealand Geological Survey Expedition (1962-63).

Location

Latitude:
74° 49' 00.1" S
-74.81670°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
158° 24' 00.0" E
158.40000°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Images

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Map

Source

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

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
19-Jan-1989

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