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

Feature Class (see definition): Summit

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 3168

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 64° 09' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 060° 35' 00" W

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -64.15

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -60.5833333

Elevation (see definition): No data

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

Description (see definition): Mountain standing at the head of Gregory Glacier and N of Breguet Glacier, in northern Graham Land. Shown on an Argentine government chart of 1957. Named by the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for Paul Cornu, French engineer who, in a machine of his own construction, was the first man to leave the ground successfully, although not vertically, in a helicopter.

Date Created (see definition): No data

Date Edited (see definition): No data

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


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