Name details

Mount Stibbs

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

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

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 2723

Feature type: Mountain

Origin

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

Narrative

A mountain on Macquarie Island with an elevation of about 340m situated about 0.4 km north of Waterfall Lake and about 4.4 km north from the southern end of the Island. RK Stibbs, Officer-in-Charge of the ANARE Station on Macquarie Island in 1951.

Named For

RK Stibbs, Officer-in-Charge of the ANARE Station on Macquarie Island in 1951.

Location

Latitude:
54° 44' 09.9" S
-54.73609°
Accurate to 30m
Longitude:
158° 48' 49.6" E
158.81377°
Accurate to 30m
Altitude:
370 m
Accurate to 5m

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:
Unknown

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