Fuchs Dome (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Fuchs Dome (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Dome
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:
snowfield rising to c. 1600m in W Shackleton Range, was surveyed by TAE from "Shackleton" in 1957 and named after Sir Vivian Ernest Fuchs (1908-1999), Leader, TAE; Base Leader (and Commander, FIDS), "Stonington Island", 1948-50; first Director, FID Scientific Bureau, 1950-58; Director, FIDS, 1958-62, and BAS, 1962-73; Chairman, APC, from 1968; President of RGS, 1981-84 (APC, 1962, p.13; DOS 610 sheets W 80 24/26 and 26/28, 1963). Kupol Fuks (Soviet Union. AA, 1966, Pl.24).
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