Combs, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Combs (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. 1000m at base of Rydberg Peninsula, English Coast, was seen from the air by RARE, 23 December 1947, and named after Representative J.M. Combs (1889-1953), US Congressman of Beaumont, Texas, who did much to gain support for the expedition ([in 73 00'S 81 30'W] Ronne, 1948b, map p.356; [co-ordinates corrected] USGS sketch map Bryan Coast-Ellsworth Land, 1968; APC, 1975, p.3). The mountain was photographed from the air by USN, 1965-66, and mapped from air photographs by USGS. Monte Combs (Chile. IGM map 30, 1966).
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