Name details
Pyramid Peak
Pyramid Peak (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Pyramid Peak (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 2700
Feature type:
Peak
Origin
This name originates from Australia.
It is part of the
Australian Antarctic Gazetteer.
Narrative
Named by Leslie Russel Blake, surveyor in 1914 for its distinctive shape.
Named For
Location
Latitude:
54° 39' 31.1" S
-54.65863°
Accurate to 30m
Longitude:
158° 52' 17.3" E
158.87147°
Accurate to 30m
Altitude:
250 m
Accurate to 5m
Images
©AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1983
- Catalogue id
- 252A4
- Caption
- centre: Pyramid Peak.
- Photographer
- Eavis, Christopher (Chris)
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 Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
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
Date approved:
11-Aug-1955
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