Name details

Young Peak

Young Peak (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Young Peak  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 2055

Feature type: Peak

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 peak just south of Mount Holder and about 4 km east of Mount Caroline Mikkelsen on the Ingrid Christensen Coast of Princess Elizabeth Land. Plotted from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and with Holder Peak called Tvillingfjell (Twin Mountain) by Norwegian cartographers.

Named For

The feature was fixed by triangulation from an astrofixed baseline by an ANARE party led by William Young, officer-in-charge at Davis in 1963, after whom it was named.

Location

Latitude:
69° 45' 00.7" S
-69.75020°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
74° 31' 36.8" E
74.52690°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
Not recorded
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Images

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Map

Source

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

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
Unknown

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