Name details

Aker Peaks

Aker Peaks (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Aker Peaks  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 2064

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 series of peaks, mainly snow-covered, the highest being about 1,800 m above sea level, WNW of Edward VIII Gulf.

Named For

Discovered on 14 January, 1931, by a Norwegian whaling expedition under O. Borchgrevink, who named them after the farm of S.F. Brunn, a Director of the Antarctic Whaling Co., at Txnsberg, Norway.

Location

Latitude:
66° 37' 09.5" S
-66.61931°
Accurate to 200m
Longitude:
55° 19' 53.9" E
55.33164°
Accurate to 200m
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:
Satellite Image
Source Name:
LIMA - Landsat Image Mosaic Antarctica
Source Identifier:
Satellite image ( Satellite Image Catalogue - Scene Id E149_RGB_321_1X not in the Satellite Image Catalogue. )
Source Scale:
1:50000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
USGS - United States Geological Survey
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
28-Nov-1955

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