Fourcade, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Fourcade (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 215m at N end of Arctowski Peninsula, Danco Coast, was photographed from the air by FIDASE and surveyed from the ground by FIDS from "Danco Island", 1956-57; in association with the names of pioneers of photogrammetry and air survey grouped in this area, named after Henri Georges Fourcade (1866-1948), South African geodetic surveyor and botanist who designed the stereogoniometer and applied it to plotting photogrammetric surveys, in c. 1900 (APC, 1960, p.4; BAS 250 sheet SQ 19-20/4, 1-DOS 1974).
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