Atwater Hill (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Atwater Hill (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Hill
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 c. 125m on E side of Lavoisier Island, Biscoe Islands, was surveyed by FIDS from "Detaille Island", 1956-59; in association with names of other pioneers of cold-climate physiology grouped in this area, named after Wilbur Olin Atwater (1844-1907), who with F.G. Benedict (Benedict Point, q.v.) perfected the technique for calorimetric measurement of metabolism (APC, 1960, p.2; BA, 1961, p.191; BAS 250P sheet SQ 19-20/10, 1-DOS 1979).
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