SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Mount Hunt

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

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

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Place ID: 6781
Name ID: 1384

Feature type: Mountain

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Mount Hunt (Russia)
Mount Hunt (United States of America)

Narrative

A dome-shaped mountain about 518 m high, surmounting the promontory which terminates in Cape de la Motte on the Coast of George V Land. Discovered by AAE (1911-14) under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it after H.A. Hunt, (then) Director of the Australian Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology.

Named For

Location

Latitude:

67° 02' 13.0" S

-67.03694°

Accurate to 3000m

Longitude:

144° 20' 19.0" E

144.33861°

Accurate to 3000m

Altitude:

Not recorded

Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:

Satellite Image

Source Name:

Landsat Image Mosaic Antarctica (LIMA)

Source Identifier:

E127_CIR_432_1X

Source Scale:

1:25000

Source Institution:

Australian Antarctic Division

Source Person:

Brolsma

Source Publisher:

United States Geological Survey (USGS)

Remote sensing:

Not Applicable

Comments

Not clear which rock outcrop the mountain is on.

Approval status

Status:

Official

Date approved:

24-Nov-1961

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