Feature Name (see definition): Bernhardi Heights

Feature Class (see definition): Summit

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 1289

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 80° 20' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 025° 00' 00" W

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -80.3333333

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -25

Elevation (see definition): 1220

Decision Year (see definition): No data

Description (see definition): A line of heights (1,220 m), snow-covered to E but with a west-facing rock escarpment, rising E of Schimper Glacier in the Herbert Mountains, Shackleton Range. Photographed from the air by the U.S. Navy, 1967, and surveyed by British Antarctic Survey (BAS), 1968-71. In association with the names of glacial geologists grouped in this area, named by the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee (UK-APC) in 1971 after Reinhard Bernhardi, German geologist, who in 1832 first recognized the moraines and erratics of north Germany as evidence of a former south extension of the Arctic ice sheet.

Date Created (see definition): No data

Date Edited (see definition): No data