SCAR Composite Gazetteer

White Hill

White Hill (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

White Hill (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 15973
Name ID: 706

Feature type: Hill

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:

Liupan Shandi (China)

Narrative

A prominent hill on Stornes Peninsula in the Larsemann Hills which is distinguished by white quartz deposits.

Named For

Named by the 1986-87 ANARE Field Party because of the white appearance which the quartz gives it.

Location

Latitude:

69° 24' 38.7" S

-69.41075°

Accurate to 25m

Longitude:

76° 05' 46.6" E

76.09629°

Accurate to 25m

Altitude:

105 m

Accurate to 10m

Images

©Rick Oates 2009

Catalogue id: IA21835
Caption: White Hill, Larsemann Hills. Taken from helicopter at height of 1200 feet. Looking North.
Photographer: Oates, Rick

Map

Source

Location Method:

Unknown

Source Name:

Larsemann Hills 1:25000 Topographic GIS Dataset

Source Identifier:

Lars25K

Source Scale:

1:25000

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:

24-Nov-1987

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