Calais, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Calais (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. 2350m S of Roberts Ice Piedmont, N Alexander Island, was roughly indicated by BeAE (Lecointe, 1903, p.99-100; 1905, Carte 6); roughly mapped by FAE, 1908-10, and named Massif Calais after the French city (Charcot, 1912, Pl. 1). Calais Mount (BA chart 3175, 9.x.1914). Mount Calais (BA, 1916, photograph facing p.409; APC, 1955, p.6; DOS 610 sheet W 69 70, 1960). Alais [sic] Fj. (HA chart, 1927). Montes Calais (Rymill and others, 1943, map facing p.272). Cape Nicholas, in error (Mount Nicholas, q.v.) (USHO, 1943, p.165; [referring to the ill-defined cape N of Mount Calais] USHO, 1956, p.38). Cape Brown (q.v.), in error (USHO, 1956, p.38). Monte Calais (Chile. DNH chart LIII, 1947; IHA, 1974, p.63). The mountain was surveyed from the ground by FIDS from "Stonington Island" and photographed from the air by RARE in 1947-48. Calais Berg (Knapp, 1958, p.570). Mount Nicholas, in error (USAF chart 1789, 1959). Gora Kale (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961).
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