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Weems, Mount: Antarctica
SOURCE: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Bethesda, MD, USA
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This page presents the geographical name data for Weems, 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): Weems, Mount

Feature Class (see definition): Summit

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 16383

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 77° 27' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 086° 10' 00" W

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -77.45

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -86.1666667

Elevation (see definition): 2210

Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1961

Description (see definition): Prominent mountain, 2,210 m, located 8 mi N of Mount Ulmer near the N end of the Sentinel Range in the Ellsworth Mountains. Discovered by Lincoln Ellsworth on his trans-Antarctic flight of Nov. 23, 1935. Named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Captain P.V.H. Weems, U.S. Navy (USN) (Ret.), inventor and developer of air navigation instrumentation and techniques and consultant to Ellsworth on air navigation problems of this flight.

Date Created (see definition): No data

Date Edited (see definition): No data

NOTE: The information regarding Weems, 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 Weems, Mount information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Weems, Mount should be addressed to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.


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