Castro, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Castro (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 1630m, E of Forster Ice Piedmont, Fallières Coast, was photographed from the air by BGLE in 1936-37 and by RARE in December 1947; surveyed from the ground by FIDS from "Stonington Island" in November 1958; in association with the names of pioneers of navigation grouped in this area, named after Juan de Castro (1500-48), Portugese marine pilot who experimented on the variation of the magnetic compass, 1538-41 (APC, 1962, p.8; DOS 610 sheet W 69 66, 1963).
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