Showing posts with label Mount McKerrow - Antarctica. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mount McKerrow - Antarctica. Show all posts

Wednesday, 5 December 2007

Mount McKerrow - Antarctica

I have finally, precisely located Mount McKerrow in Antarctica, named after James McKerrow

Mount McKerrow

Australian Gazetteer

Feature Types Mountain (details of this feature type)
Location Latitude: 81° 45' 00.0" S (-81.75°)
Longitude: 159° 48' 00.0" E (159.8°)
Altitude:
Confidence in position:


Region Antarctica
Date Created 01-Jan-2000
Named for

Narrative A peak in the Surveyors Range, 6 km south-west of Mount Hotine. Discovered by the New Zealand Geological and Survey Antarctic Expedition (1960-61). Named after J. McKerrow, a former Surveyor-General of New Zealand.

Tuesday, 4 December 2007

Mount McKerrow - Antarctica

When I was in Antarctica in 1969-70 I came across a map with a Mount McKerrow, situated somewhere in Victoria Land.

Today I saw this reference on where Mount McKerrow is:

Farmer Glacier 8147S, 15948E. A glacier flowing north-west into Starshot Glacier, and located between Mount McKerrow at north and Thompson Mountain at south, at the southern end of Surveyors Range.

'''Farmer Glacier''' ({{coor dm|81|47|S|159|48|E|}}) is a [[glacier]] flowing north west into [[Starshot Glacier]], and located between [[Mount McKerrow]] at north and [[Thompson Mountain]] at south, at the southern end of [[Surveyors Range]]. Named in honor of [[D. W. Farmer]], a member of the 1960 [[Cape Hallett]] winter-over team, working as a technician on the geomagnetic project.