Name details

Mount Fletcher

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

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

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 2559

Feature type: Mountain

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer.

Narrative

A mountain on the southern part of Macquarie Island.

Named For

Named by Blake (surveyor with the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) 1911-13) after Frank D Fletcher who joined the AAE as First Officer on SY Aurora in May 1912 and visited Macquarie Island.

Location

Latitude:
54° 43' 44.0" S
-54.72889°
Accurate to 30m
Longitude:
158° 49' 13.4" E
158.82039°
Accurate to 30m
Altitude:
428 m
Accurate to 2m

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Topographic data
Source Name:
Macquarie Island Vegetation and Drainage Structure Data Set,Mac Island Contours from AIRSAR Aug 2000
Source Identifier:
MIvegmap,macca_contour_gis
Source Scale:
1:25000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
Australian Antarctic Division
Remote sensing:
NASA AIRSAR DEM Metadata record - [macca_dem_gis] Macquarie Island Topopoly GIS Dataset. [macca_topopoly_gis]

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
11-Aug-1955

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