SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Mount Coates

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

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

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Place ID: 2790
Name ID: 1517

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 Coates (Russia)
Mount Coates (United States of America)

Narrative

A peak at the southern end of the northern massif of the David Range. Discovered and named on 13-14 February, 1931, by Sir Douglas Mawson, BANZARE.

Named For

Location

Latitude:

67° 51' 56.2" S

-67.86561°

Accurate to 30m

Longitude:

62° 30' 53.6" E

62.51489°

Accurate to 30m

Altitude:

1233.8 m

Accurate to 20m

Images

©Wade Fairley 2005

Catalogue id: IA16587
Caption: Mount Coates
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:

22-Jul-1959

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