Charpentier Pyramid (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Charpentier Pyramid (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Pyramid
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 1080m in N Herbert Mountains, Shackleton Range, was roughly mapped by TAE in October 1957; photographed from the air by USN in 1967 and surveyed from the ground by BAS from Halley, 1968-71; in association with the names of glacial geologists grouped in this area, named after Jean de (Hans von) Charpentier (1786-1855), Swiss engineer and mineralogist, who in 1835 gave additional proofs for the views of I. Venetz-Sitten (Venetz Peak, q.v.) on the former extension of glaciers (APC, 1974, p.3; BAS 250P sheet SU-30/1, 1-DOS 1978).
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