Boyle Mountains (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Boyle Mountains (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. 2100m and including Bartholin Peak and Quervain Peak, between Lallemand Fjord and Bourgeois Fjord, Loubet Coast, were photographed from the air by FIDASE in 1956-57; in association with the names of glaciologists grouped in this area, named after The Hon. Robert Boyle (1627-91), English natural philosopher and an Original Founder Member of the Royal Society; author of New experiments and observations touching cold... (London, 1665) and Essay on gems (London, 1672), containing one of the earliest known descriptions of ice crystals (APC, 1959a, p.4; BA chart 3571, 14.vii.1961; BAS 250P sheet SQ 19-20/14 (Ext.), 1-DOS 1978).
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