Eland Mountains (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Eland Mountains (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. 1800m, S of Clifford Glacier, Wilkins Coast, and including Peters Bastion, were surveyed from the W by BGLE in December 1936 (Stephenson, 1940, map facing p.232); photographed from the air and surveyed from the E by FIDS-RARE from "Stonington Island", 1947-48; named after Lady Clifford, née Ivy Dorothy Eland (d. 1952), wife of Sir Miles Clifford (Clifford Glacier, q.v.) (APC, 1955, p.9; DCS sheet 70 62, 1955; BAS 250 sheet SR 19-20/12, 1-DOS 1976). Gory Ilend (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). [See also under Hearst Escarpment.]
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