Mount Lombard

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

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

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Place ID: 8596
Name ID: 109887

Feature type: Mountain

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

rising to 560m on Sobral Peninsula, Nordenskjöld Coast, was surveyed by FIDS from "Hope Bay", 1960-61; in association with the names of pioneers of overland mechanical transport grouped in this area, named after Alvin O. Lombard, American engineer of the Lombard Steam Log Hauler Company, Waterville, Maine, who designed some of the earliest successful oversnow tractors in the first application of knowledge of snow mechanics to trafficability, 1901-13 (APC, 1964, p.3; BAS 250 sheet SQ 21-22/1 (Ext.), 1-DOS 1974).

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Location

Latitude:
64° 31' 00.0" S
-64.51667°
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Longitude:
59° 40' 00.0" W
-59.66667°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Images

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Map

Source

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

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
12-Feb-1964

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