SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Mount Elliott

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

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

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Place ID: 4191
Name ID: 1463

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:

Mount Elliott (Russia)

Narrative

The highest point of the northern ridge of the David Range in Mac.Robertson Land 1236 m high. Discovered from the sea in 1930 by Sir Douglas Mawson; climbed for the first time by an ANARE party led by J.M. Béchervaise in January, 1956. Named for F.W., Elliott, weather observer at Mawson in 1955.

Named For

Location

Latitude:

67° 49' 18.1" S

-67.82169°

Accurate to 30m

Longitude:

62° 33' 27.0" E

62.55750°

Accurate to 30m

Altitude:

1236.6 m

Accurate to 20m

Images

©Wade Fairley 2005

Catalogue id: IA16589
Caption: The south face of Mount Elliott
Photographer: Fairley, Wade

Map

Source

Location Method:

Unknown

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:

4-Sep-1956

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