Feature Name (see definition): Endeavour, Mount

Feature Class (see definition): Summit

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 17685

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 76° 33' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 162° 00' 00" E

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -76.55

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): 162

Elevation (see definition): 1810

Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/2000

Description (see definition): An 1810 m summit 1 mi. N of the base of Ketchum Ridge in the S part of Endeavour Massif, Kirkwood Range, Victoria Land. The name Mount Endeavour was given to the S block of the Kirkwood Range by the New Zealand Northern Survey Party of Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (CTAE) in Oct. 1957, but in subsequent New Zealand and U.S. maps the name is identified as the 1810 m summit described above. Following additional mapping by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in 1999 and consultation between Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) and New Zealand Geographic Board (NZGB), the name Endeavour Massif (q.v.) was approved for the S block of the Kirkwood Range. For the sake of historical continuity the name Mount Endeavour has been retained for the summit near Ketchum Ridge. The summit and the massif are named after HMNZS Endeavour (formerly John Biscoe), supply ship to the 1957 New Zealand Northern Survey Party. A 1962 decision refined.

Date Created (see definition): 05/18/2000

Date Edited (see definition): No data