Mount Tritoppen

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

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

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Place ID: 14973
Name ID: 1458

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 triple-peaked mountain, about 6 km south of Mt. Hordern in the David Range. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Tritoppen (The Triple Peak) by Norwegian cartographers.

Named For

Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Tritoppen (The Triple Peak) by Norwegian cartographers.

Location

Latitude:
67° 59' 07.4" S
-67.98539°
Accurate to 30m
Longitude:
62° 28' 53.0" E
62.48139°
Accurate to 30m
Altitude:
1307.4 m
Accurate to 20m

Images


©Wade Fairley 2005
Catalogue id
IA16593
Caption
Mount Tritoppen
Photographer
Fairley, Wade

Map

Source

Location Method:
Topographic data
Source Name:
Framnes Mountains 1:25000 Topographic GIS Dataset
Source Identifier:
fram25k
Source Scale:
1:2000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
Australian Antarctic Division
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
18-Feb-1958

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