Chevreul Cliffs (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Chevreul Cliffs (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Cliff
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. 1500m at E end of Shotton Snowfield, Shackleton Range, were 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 pioneers of polar life and travel grouped in this area, named after Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786-1889), French chemist whose researches on the nature of fats in 1823 led to the invention of stearine candles, used subsequently by polar explorers (APC, 1974, p.3; BAS 250P sheet SU 26-30/1, 1-DOS 1978).
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