Brisbane Heights (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Brisbane Heights (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Heights
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:
ice-covered area of W central Coronation Island, rising to c. 920m between Worswick Hill and Beaufoy Ridge, were roughly surveyed by FIDS from Signy in 1948-49 and named Brisbane Plateau, after Capt. Matthew Brisbane (?1787-1833), Master of the cutter Beaufoy, who sailed with Weddell, 1822-24, and took part in the first survey of the S coasts of the South Orkney Islands (q.v.) in January 1823 (APC, 1955, p.6); resurveyed by FIDS from Signy in 1956 and renamed Brisbane Heights (APC, 1959a, p.5; DOS 510 South Orkney Islands, West Sheet, 1963). Alturas Brisbane (Argentina. AA, 1991, p. 9)
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