Hochstetter Peak

Hochstetter Peak (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Hochstetter Peak  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 18819
Name ID: 137129

Feature type: (2f)

Origin

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

Narrative

The partly ice-free peak rising to over 1000 m on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land. Situated in the SE foothills of Louis-Philippe Plateau, 6.83 km WSW of Kukuryak Bluff, 10.82 km NW of Levassor Nunatak and 2.69 km N by E of Smin Peak. Surmounting Cugnot Ice Piedmont to the E. German-British mapping in 1996. Named after the German-Austrian geologist Ferdinand von Hochstetter (1829-1884) who worked in Bulgaria, other European countries and New Zealand. Approved on December 6, 2010.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
63° 36' 52.0" S
-63.61444°
Accurate to 0m
Longitude:
58° 18' 12.0" W
-58.30333°
Accurate to 0m
Altitude:
Not recorded
Accurate to 0m

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown The coordinates for this place name were derived from Map id 0 - This map does not exist in the SCAR Map Catalogue. in the SCAR Map Catalogue.
Source Name:
Unknown
Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Unknown
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

new feature (Ivanov, 13.12.10)

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
12-Jun-2010

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