Dewar, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Dewar (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. 1500m NE of Shotton Snowfield, Shackleton Range, was 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 Sir James Dewar (1842-1923), Scottish chemist and physicist who invented the thermos flask, c. 1892; sometime Professor of Experimental Philosophy, Cambridge University, and of Chemistry, Royal Institution, London (APC, 1974, p.3; BAS 250P sheet SU 26-30/1, 1-DOS 1978).
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