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

Feature Class (see definition): Summit

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 231

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 63° 18' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 055° 48' 00" W

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -63.3

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -55.8

Elevation (see definition): 595

Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1963

Description (see definition): Mountain with several summits, the highest 595 m, forming the rocky peninsula separating Gibson and Haddon Bays, on the S side of Joinville Island. The cliff marking the extremity of the peninsula was discovered and named Cape Alexander on Jan. 8, 1893 by Thomas Robertson, master of the ship Active, one of the Dundee whalers. The name was amended to Mount Alexander by the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee (UK-APC) in 1956 following a survey by the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1953-54, the mountain summits of the peninsula being considered more suitable to name.

Date Created (see definition): No data

Date Edited (see definition): No data

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


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