Name details

Fang Peak

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

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

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 2079

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 very prominent conical peak in the David Range, Mac.Robertson Land, about 3 km south of Mount Parsons. This feature was used as an unoccupied trigonometrical station by J C Armstrong, surveyor at Mawson in 1959. So named because of the resemblance to a tooth.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
67° 47' 40.8" S
-67.79467°
Accurate to 30m
Longitude:
62° 35' 04.0" E
62.58444°
Accurate to 30m
Altitude:
1032.2 m
Accurate to 20m

Images


©Wade Fairley 2005
Catalogue id
IA16583
Caption
Fang Peak
Photographer
Fairley, Wade

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:
Unknown

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