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

Feature Class (see definition): Summit

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 848

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 66° 33' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 065° 26' 00" W

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -66.55

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -65.4333333

Elevation (see definition): 2090

Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1965

Description (see definition): Mountain, 2,090 m, standing between Hopkins and Erskine Glaciers on the W coast of Graham Land. Named by the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee (UK-APC) in 1958 for James S. Bain of London, who specialized in the development of polar and high altitude rations, with special emphasis on plastic vacuum packaging, between 1948 and 1956.

Date Created (see definition): No data

Date Edited (see definition): No data

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


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