O'Leary Ridges

O'Leary Ridges (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

O'Leary Ridges  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 10482
Name ID: 2272

Feature type: Ridge

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:

Narrative

Three, partly snow-covered ridges about 43 km south-east of Mount Bunt in the Aramis Range, Prince Charles Mountains. The ridges have a steep rock face on the south-west side. Plotted from ANARE air photographs taken in 1960. Named after R.A. O''Leary, Officer-in-Charge at Wilkes in 1964.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
70° 58' 14.5" S
-70.97069°
Accurate to 300m
Longitude:
67° 20' 28.7" E
67.34131°
Accurate to 300m
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:
Satellite Image
Source Name:
LIMA - Landsat Image Mosaic Antarctica
Source Identifier:
Satellite image ( Satellite Image Catalogue - Scene Id E132_RGB_321_1X not in the Satellite Image Catalogue. )
Source Scale:
1:25000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
USGS - United States Geological Survey
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
Unknown

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