Name details

Mount Waite

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

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

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 2737

Feature type: Mountain

Origin

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

Narrative

A mountain just north of Flynn Lake. Edgar Waite, then Director of the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, was biologist on the First Sub-Antarctic cruise of SY Aurora, 17 May 1912 - 11 July 1912, and visited the Island as a passenger on the Tutanekai in August 1913.

Named For

Edgar Waite, then Director of the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, was biologist on the First Sub-Antarctic cruise of SY Aurora, 17 May 1912 - 11 July 1912.

Location

Latitude:
54° 38' 22.0" S
-54.63944°
Accurate to 30m
Longitude:
158° 50' 05.6" E
158.83488°
Accurate to 30m
Altitude:
389.1 m
Accurate to 0.5m

Images


©AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1970
Catalogue id
2693A3
Caption
Looking south
Photographer
Johnstone, Gavin W

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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