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This page presents the geographical name data for
Bumstead, 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):
Bumstead, Mount
Feature Class
(see definition):
Summit
Country Code
(see definition): AQ (Antarctica)
Feature ID
(see definition):
2143
Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds
(see definition):
85° 39' 00" S
Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds
(see definition):
174° 10' 00" E
Primary Latitude in decimal degrees
(see definition):
-85.65
Primary Longitude in decimal degrees
(see definition):
174.1666667
Elevation
(see definition):
2990
Decision Year
(see definition):
No data
Description
(see definition):
A large, isolated mountain, 2,990 m, standing 10 mi SE of Otway Massif in the Grosvenor Mountains. Discovered by R. Admiral Byrd on the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (ByrdAE) flight to the South Pole in November 1929 and named by him for Albert H. Bumstead, chief cartographer of the National Geographic Society at that time, and inventor of the sun compass, a device utilizing shadows of the sun to determine directions in areas where magnetic compasses are unreliable.
Date Created
(see definition):
No data
Date Edited
(see definition):
No data
NOTE: The information regarding
Bumstead, 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
Bumstead, Mount information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about
Bumstead, Mount should be addressed to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
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