Farman Highland

Farman Highland (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Farman Highland  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 4468
Name ID: 108763

Feature type: Hillock

Origin

This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

ice-covered upland, rising to c. 750 m and forming the E part of Hutton Mountains, between Wright Inlet and Keller Inlet, Lassiter Coast, Palmer Land. Photographed by USN, 1961-67. Named after Joseph C. Farman, FIDS-BAS atmospheric physicist, 1957-90; scientific officer, Argentine Islands, 1957-59 (Base Leader, 1958-59) and chief scientist involved in the discovery of the ozone hole over Antarctica in 1985 (APC, 1991) .

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Location

Latitude:
74° 08' 00.0" S
-74.13333°
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Longitude:
61° 30' 00.0" W
-61.50000°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Unknown
Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
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Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
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Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
13-May-1991

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