SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Painted Peak

Painted Peak (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Painted Peak (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 10827
Name ID: 2074

Feature type: Peak

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:

Painted Peak (Russia)
Painted Peak (United States of America)

Narrative

A prominent peak on the northern spur of the North Masson Range, Mac.Robertson Land. This feature is conspicuous by its red-brown colouring. It was used as a tellurometer station by D.R. Carstens, surveyor at Mawson in 1962.

Named For

Location

Latitude:

67° 45' 38.5" S

-67.76069°

Accurate to 30m

Longitude:

62° 50' 30.8" E

62.84189°

Accurate to 30m

Altitude:

750.9 m

Accurate to 20m

Images

©AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1992

Catalogue id: 1038C5
Caption: [All uses of this image except AAD non-commercial must be cleared with Kevin Sheridan prior to use. Ph 02 68 846 388]
Photographer: Sheridan, Kevin P (Kev)

Map

Source

Location Method:

Topographic data

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:

11-Oct-1960

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