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

Feature Class (see definition): Summit

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 3631

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 85° 48' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 162° 34' 00" W

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -85.8

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -162.5666667

Elevation (see definition): 2380

Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1967

Description (see definition): Prominent peak, 2,380 m, surmounting the massive ridge dividing the heads of Moffett and Steagall Glaciers in the Queen Maud Mountains. First mapped from ground surveys and air photos by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (ByrdAE), 1928-30. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for J. Evan Deardorff who made cosmic ray studies at McMurdo Station in 1964.

Date Created (see definition): No data

Date Edited (see definition): No data

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


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