Sagehen Nunataks

Sagehen Nunataks (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Sagehen Nunataks  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 12601
Name ID: 139613

Feature type: Nunatak

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 roughly triangular group of hills rising to c.150m above base level on the eastern side of Holdsworth Glacier immediately north of Mount Amherst, in the Queen Maud Mountains.

Named For

Mapped by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy (USN) aerial photographs, 1960-64. Visited by a U.S. Antarctic Research Program (USARP) - Arizona State University geological field party, 1978-79, and named after the Sagehen, mascot of Pomona College, Claremont, CA, the alma mater of Scott G. Borg, one of the field party members.

Location

Latitude:
86° 30' 00.0" S
-86.50000°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
153° 15' 00.0" W
-153.25000°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
1940 m
Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
0.5m Antarctic Imagery Mosaic, DigitalGlobe Inc 2018
Source Identifier:
10400100164B7B00
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Polar Geospatial Center
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Height on outermost nunatak on northwest

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
17-Dec-1981

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