Spigot Peak (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Spigot Peak (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Peak
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
rising to 280m and forming the SW entrance point of Orne Harbour (q.v.), Arctowski Peninsula, Danco Coast, was called descriptively Nunatak Negro [=black nunatak] by AAE (Argentina. MM chart 106, 1949; Pierrou, 1970, p.542; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.209). Monte Nunatak Negro (Argentina. MM chart RO, 1954). The peak was charted by FIDS from Norsel in April 1955 and named, from its appearance, Spigot Peak, a spigot being a wooden peg (APC, 1958, p.6; BA chart 3566, 16.x.1959).
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