Mount Smith

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

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

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Place ID: 13549
Name ID: 139514

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

A peak, about 1440m high rising above a mountain mass about 30km inland from the coast of Victoria Land in the Prince Albert Mountains.

Named For

Discovered by NAE, 1901-04, which probably named this feature after W.E. Smith, Chief Naval Constructor, who prepared this plans and supervised the construction of the expedition ship Discovery. Not Smith Mountains.

Location

Latitude:
76° 03' 20.3" S
-76.05564°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
161° 33' 45.7" E
161.56270°
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Altitude:
1440 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 16_35 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:
1-Jan-1958

Related information

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