Mount Feather

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

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

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Place ID: 4496
Name ID: 113278

Feature type: Mountain (2a)

Origin

This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

An immense mountain with a broad dome-shaped summit, at the north end of the Skelton névé between the Lashly Glacier and the head of the Ferrar Glacier. It is cliffed by the main stream of the Skelton on the south, a long ridge runs towards Tabular Mountain, and from this another ridge runs north-east towarrds Beacon Heights. Named by the NAE, 1901-04, after Thomas A Feather, RN, Boatswain on the "Discovery", who accompanied Scott in his Western Journey in 1903.

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Location

Latitude:
77° 57' 00.0" S
-77.95000°
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Longitude:
160° 21' 00.0" E
160.35000°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Map

Source

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Remote sensing:
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Approval status

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