SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Fang Peak

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

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

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Place ID: 4455
Name ID: 2079

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:

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

Narrative

A very prominent conical peak in the David Range, Mac.Robertson Land, about 3 km south of Mount Parsons. This feature was used as an unoccupied trigonometrical station by J C Armstrong, surveyor at Mawson in 1959. So named because of the resemblance to a tooth.

Named For

Location

Latitude:

67° 47' 40.8" S

-67.79467°

Accurate to 30m

Longitude:

62° 35' 04.0" E

62.58444°

Accurate to 30m

Altitude:

1032.2 m

Accurate to 20m

Images

©Wade Fairley 2005

Catalogue id: IA16583
Caption: Fang Peak
Photographer: Fairley, Wade

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:

Unknown

Related information

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