Name details

Mount Haswell

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

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

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 2573

Feature type: Mountain

Origin

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

Narrative

A mountain on the southern end of Macquarie Island between Petrel Peak and Mt Ainsworth.

Named For

Named after Professor W.A. Haswell who was a member of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition Advisory Committee and assisted in the organization of the Expedition's biological program.

Location

Latitude:
54° 45' 54.8" S
-54.76522°
Accurate to 30m
Longitude:
158° 48' 03.4" E
158.80094°
Accurate to 30m
Altitude:
330 m
Accurate to 30m

Images


©Julie McInnes 2009
Catalogue id
IA16754
Caption
Mount Haswell from Petrel Peak
Photographer
McInnes, Julie

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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