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

Feature Class (see definition): Summit

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 2463

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 74° 53' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 071° 27' 00" W

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -74.8833333

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -71.45

Elevation (see definition): 1700

Decision Year (see definition): No data

Description (see definition): Mountain rising to 1,700 m near the center of the Sky-Hi Nunataks (q.v.) in Ellsworth Land. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Paul E. Carrara, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) geologist, a member of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) field party, 1977-78, which carried out geological reconnaissance mapping of the area between Sky-Hi Nunataks and the Orville Coast. Carrara and two party members climbed the mountain in January 1978.

Date Created (see definition): No data

Date Edited (see definition): No data

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


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