SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Seavers Nunataks

Seavers Nunataks (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Seavers Nunataks (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 12958
Name ID: 1794

Feature type: Nunatak

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:

Seavers Nunataks (Russia)
Seavers Nunataks (United States of America)

Narrative

Two nunataks about 20 km north of Mount Menzies in the southern Prince Charles Mountains. Photographed from ANARE aircraft in 1958 and 1960 from ANARE aircraft. Used as a landmark on the route across the Fisher Glacier by an ANARE dog-sledge party led by D. Trail in December 1961. Named after J. Seavers, assistant cook at Mawson in 1961, who was a member of the dog-sledge party.

Named For

Location

Latitude:

73° 10' 48.4" S

-73.18011°

Accurate to 150m

Longitude:

61° 55' 15.7" E

61.92103°

Accurate to 150m

Altitude:

1841 m

Accurate to 100m

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:

Satellite Image The coordinates for this place name were derived from Map id 2721 - Massiv Zagadocnyj in the SCAR Map Catalogue.

Source Name:

Landsat Image Mosaic Antarctica (LIMA) and Map 2721 SCAR map cat.

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:

Height from Russian map SR41-7,8 (Map 2721 SCAR map catalogue)

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:

Official

Date approved:

23-Oct-1962

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