Mount Chaudoin

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

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

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Place ID: 18375
Name ID: 136661

Feature type: None recorded.

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 abrupt mountain rising to about 1400m, at the western end of Gonville and Caius Range, Victoria Land. The mountain forms part of the divide between Bachtold 2d and Griffiths 2d. Topographic map: Debenham 2d (1:50,000). Named by US-ACAN (2007) after YNC Robert L. Chaudoin USN (Seabees), who at the time was the Senior Administrative Yeoman to the commanding officer and member of the construction crew which built the original McMurdo Station and the original South Pole Station in the 1955-57 pre-IGY period. He also was the first U.S. Navy Postal Clerk at the South Pole Station, 1956.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
77° 09' 15.0" S
-77.15417°
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Longitude:
162° 01' 30.0" E
162.02500°
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Altitude:
1400 m
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
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Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

new adopted name (Wendy, 13.6.08)

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
7-Apr-2008

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