SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Mount Johns

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

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

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Place ID: 7197
Name ID: 1578

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 Johns (Russia)

Narrative

An isolated, almost flat-topped, steep-sided rock outcrop in the southern Prince Charles Mountains on the western side of the Lambert Glacier, in Mac.Robertson Land. Discovered in November, 1956, during a photographic flight by an ANARE aircraft. Named after D.H. Johns, physicist at Mawson in 1957.

Named For

Location

Latitude:

72° 30' 41.8" S

-72.51161°

Accurate to 150m

Longitude:

66° 33' 14.8" E

66.55411°

Accurate to 150m

Altitude:

2080 m

Accurate to 20m

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 NMS113

Approval status

Status:

Official

Date approved:

Unknown

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