P.J. Moonie
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Patrick John Moonie is a recipient of the Polar Medal
. The medal was awarded in 1975 for his work with the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) as Radio Operator-in-Charge at Mawson Station in the 1 960s.
Mount Moonie
in the Athos Range
was named after P.J. Moonie by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia.
Polar Medal
The Polar Medal is a medal awarded by the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. It was instituted in 1857 as the Arctic Medal and renamed the Polar Medal in 1904.-History:...
. The medal was awarded in 1975 for his work with the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) as Radio Operator-in-Charge at Mawson Station in the 1 960s.
Mount Moonie
Mount Moonie
Mount Moonie is a mountain just south of Mount Dart and 1 nautical mile west of Mount Cardell in the Athos Range, Prince Charles Mountains. Plotted from ANARE air photos taken in 1965. Named by Antarctic Names Committee of Australia for P.J. Moonie, radio operator at Mawson Station in 1967 and...
in the Athos Range
Athos Range
Athos Range is the northernmost range in the Prince Charles Mountains of Mac. Robertson Land, Antarctica. The range consists of a large number of individual mountains and nunataks that trend east-west for 40 miles along the north side of Scylla Glacier.These mountains were first observed from...
was named after P.J. Moonie by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia.