Mount Wallace

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

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

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Place ID: 15693
Name ID: 139484

Feature type: Mountain

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

One of the Tapley Mountains, c.1490m, standing at the south side of the mouth of Roe Glacier at the juncture with Scott Glacier, in the Queen Maud Mountains.

Named For

Mapped by USGS from surveys and USN air photos, 1960-64. Named by US-ACAN for J. Allen Wallace, Jr., meteorologist, South Pole Station winter party, 1960.

Location

Latitude:
85° 38' 40.7" S
-85.64465°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
151° 23' 07.7" W
-151.38547°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
1143 m
Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica, Howat et al. 2018
Source Identifier:
REMA 8m tile 26_28 release 1.1
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Polar Geospatial Center
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

NULL

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
29-Jun-1967

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