Bigo, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Bigo (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Mountain
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. 1700m at head of Bigo Bay, Graham Coast, was sighted by FAE, 1908-10, and named Mont Bigo after Robert Bigo, of the French Maritime League (Charcot, 1912, Pl. 3). Mount Bigo (BA, 1916, photograph facing p.407; Rymill, 1938a, map facing p.400; BA chart 3196, 12.xi.1948; APC, 1955, p.5; DOS 610 sheet W 65 64, 1959). Monte Bigo (Chile. DNH chart LII, 1947; Pierrou, 1970, p.202; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.46). The mountain was photographed from the air by FIDASE in 1956-57.
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