SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Mount Stinear

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

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

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Place ID: 14049
Name ID: 1552

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

Narrative

A prominent rock outcrop, 1,725 m above sea level and 1,500 m above the ice, at the junction of the Fisher Glacier and the Lambert Glacier, in the southern Prince Charles Mountains, Mac.Robertson Land. Mapped from ANARE air photographs. First visited in 1957 by an ANARE party led by B. Stinear.

Named For

Named after Bruce H. Stinear geologist at Mawson, who led the ANARE party in 1957.

Location

Latitude:

73° 04' 30.7" S

-73.07519°

Accurate to 150m

Longitude:

66° 21' 44.6" E

66.36239°

Accurate to 150m

Altitude:

2010 m

Accurate to 50m

Images

No images of this place could be found.

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

Height from survey mark NMS125

Approval status

Status:

Official

Date approved:

29-Apr-1958

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