Cordiner Peaks (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Cordiner Peaks (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Peak
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:
S of Dufek Massif, Pensacola Mountains, rising to 1255m and including Rosser Ridge, Sumrall Peak and Jackson Peak, were seen from the air on a flight by a USN P2V-2N Neptune aircraft from McMurdo Sound to Weddell Sea and back, 13 January 1956; named after Capt. Douglas L. Cordiner, USN, observer on the flight, in association with the names of other crew members in this area (NGS map, 1957b; USBGN, 1960, p.2; USGS sheet SU 21-25/9, 1969; APC, 1974, p.3). Piki Kordiner (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). The peaks were photographed from the air by USN in 1964 and surveyed from the ground on US Pensacola Mountains Project, 1965-66. Picos Cordiner (Pierrou, 1970, p.267).
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