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Riiser-Larsen, Mount: Antarctica
SOURCE: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Bethesda, MD, USA
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This page presents the geographical name data for Riiser-Larsen, Mount in Antarctica, as supplied by the US military intelligence in electronic format, including the geographic coordinates and place name in various forms, latin, roman and native characters, and its location in its respective country's administrative division

Feature Name (see definition): Riiser-Larsen, Mount

Feature Class (see definition): Summit

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 12646

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 66° 47' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 050° 40' 00" E

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -66.7833333

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): 50.6666667

Elevation (see definition): 870

Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1947

Description (see definition): Prominent mountain, 870 m, standing at the NW end of the Tula Mountains on the E side of Amundsen Bay. Named by the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) under Mawson, in January 1930, for Captain Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, leader of a Norwegian expedition in the Norvegia which also explored the area in that season.

Date Created (see definition): No data

Date Edited (see definition): No data

NOTE: The information regarding Riiser-Larsen, Mount in Antarctica on this page is published from the data supplied by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a member of the Intelligence community of the Antarctica, and a Department of Defense (DoD) Combat Support Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Riiser-Larsen, Mount information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Riiser-Larsen, Mount should be addressed to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.


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