Name details

Gordon Peak

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

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

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 2078

Feature type: Peak

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Narrative

The most central and highest peak in the Brown Range, Mac.Robertson Land. It is about 1,484 m above sea level. This peak is one of the two peaks plotted from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936) and called Sortindane (The South Mountain Peaks) by Norwegian cartographers. It was used as an unoccupied Trigonometrical station by Max J. Corry, surveyor at Mawson in 1965. Named for P.J. Gordon, radio technician at Mawson in 1965.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
68° 08' 49.0" S
-68.14694°
Accurate to 30m
Longitude:
62° 24' 49.8" E
62.41383°
Accurate to 30m
Altitude:
1484 m
Accurate to 20m

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Topographic data
Source Name:
Framnes Mountains 1:25000 Topographic GIS Dataset
Source Identifier:
fram25k
Source Scale:
1:2000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
Australian Antarctic Division
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
10-Aug-1966

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