Mount Bayliss

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

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

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Place ID: 1025
Name ID: 1452

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:

Narrative

A fairly low, rock outcrop elongated east-west about 17 km east of Mount Menzies in Mac.Robertson Land. Discovered from an ANARE aircraft during 1957, also seen in that year from the ground by the southern seismic party led by K B Mather. Named after E P Bayliss, the cartographer who drew the map of Antarctica published in 1939 by the (then) Property and Survey Branch, Department of Interior, Canberra.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
73° 26' 20.0" S
-73.43889°
Accurate to 150m
Longitude:
62° 40' 18.0" E
62.67167°
Accurate to 150m
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images


©AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1995
Catalogue id
2783B5
Photographer
Godbold, Mathew (Matt)

Map

Source

Location Method:
Satellite Image
Source Name:
Landsat Image Mosaic Antarctica (LIMA)
Source Identifier:
E132_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

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
Unknown

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