Mount Thornton

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

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

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Place ID: 14652
Name ID: 111575

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

one of the Snow Nunataks (q.v.), rising to c. 700 m S of Carroll Inlet, English Coast, was named after Capt. Richard Thornton, commanding USNS Eltanin on Antarctic cruises, 1967-68 (USGS sketch map Bryan Coast-Ellsworth Land, 1968; APC, 1975, p.5).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
73° 34' 00.0" S
-73.56667°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
77° 07' 00.0" W
-77.11667°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Images

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Map

Source

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

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
20-Dec-1974

Related information

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