Bird, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Bird (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Mountain (2a)
This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A peak, 1719m high, on Ross Island, 7 miles southward of Cape Bird, the northern extremity of the island. Named by the NAE, 1901-04, for Lietenant Edward Joseph Bird, who was on the Erebus with Ross in 1839-41. It is a mountain with a swelling dome with a distinct longitudinal axis towards the north. It is capped by a ridge of three small dark cones, which are the only outcrops of rock to be seen from McMurdo Sound. The slope of Mt Bird towards the north is very gradual.
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