Mount Kyffin

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

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

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Place ID: 7964
Name ID: 127670

Feature type: Mountain (2a)

Origin

This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

A distinctive reddish-brown mountain, 1,670 m, with a sloping spur extending 4 mi to the N, at the extreme N end of the Commonwealth Range, projecting into the E side of Beardmore Glacier and rising precipitously above it. Discovered by the BrAE (1907-09) and named for Evan Kyffin-Thomas, one of the proprietors of the Register, an Adelaide, South Australian newspaper. He was a traveling companion of Shackleton's on the voyage from England.

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Location

Latitude:
83° 48' 00.0" S
-83.80000°
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Longitude:
171° 38' 00.0" E
171.63333°
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Altitude:
1670 m
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Map

Source

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

Comments

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Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
1-Jan-1949

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