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

Feature Class (see definition): Summit

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 11730

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 71° 47' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 068° 47' 00" W

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -71.7833333

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -68.7833333

Elevation (see definition): 300

Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1975

Description (see definition): A mountain between the head of Neptune Glacier and the Saturn Glacier in eastern Alexander Island. The feature is situated at the junction of four radial ridges. The summit is a small mesa of conglomerate rising 300 m above the surrounding ice. First photographed by Lincoln Ellsworth, Nov. 23, 1935, in the course of a trans-Antarctic flight and plotted from the air photos by W.L.G. Joerg. Named by UK Antarctic Place-names Committee (UK-APC) from association with Saturn Glacier after Phoebe, one of the satellites of Saturn.

Date Created (see definition): No data

Date Edited (see definition): No data

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


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