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

Feature Class (see definition): Summit

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 5194

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 64° 36' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 062° 30' 00" W

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -64.6

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -62.5

Elevation (see definition): No data

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

Description (see definition): Mountain standing 2 mi SW of Cape Anna on the W coast of Graham Land. Charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition (BelgAE) under Gerlache, 1897-99. Named by the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for H.G. Fourcade, South African surveyor who designed the stereogoniometer and gave it practical application for plotting photogrammetric surveys in about 1900.

Date Created (see definition): No data

Date Edited (see definition): No data

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


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