Name details

Mount Dixey

Dixey, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Mount Dixey  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 108530

Feature type: Mountain

Origin

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:

Narrative

rising to c. 1100m on E side of George VI Sound, was photographed from the air and surveyed from the ground by BGLE in 1936 (Stephenson, 1940, map facing p.232); resurveyed by FIDS from "Stonington Island" in 1949; named after Charles Neville Douglas Dixey (1881-1947), Chairman of Lloyd's, 1931, 1934 and 1936, who raised a special fund at Lloyd's as a contribution towards the cost of BGLE (APC, 1955, p.8; USHO chart 6639, 1955; DOS 610 sheet W 70 68, 1960). Gora Diksi (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
70° 10' 00.0" S
-70.16667°
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Longitude:
68° 05' 00.0" W
-68.08333°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
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Source Name:
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Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
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Source Institution:
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Source Person:
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Source Publisher:
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Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
31-Mar-1955

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