SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Mount Rubin

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

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

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Place ID: 12450
Name ID: 1612

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

Narrative

A large, gently domed mountain, with a long tail of moraine, north-west of Patrick Point and south-west of Mount Stinear in the southern Prince Charles Mountains. Photographed by ANARE aircraft in 1956, 1957 and 1958.Named after Morton Rubin, United States observer at the Soviet station, Mirny, in 1958.

Named For

Location

Latitude:

73° 26' 15.4" S

-73.43761°

Accurate to 150m

Longitude:

65° 29' 33.7" E

65.49269°

Accurate to 150m

Altitude:

1560 m

Accurate to 20m

Images

©AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1995

Catalogue id: 2777D3
Caption: Possibly Mt Rubin
Photographer: Godbold, Mathew (Matt)

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

None

Approval status

Status:

Official

Date approved:

22-Jul-1959

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