Ganymede Heights (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Ganymede Heights (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Heights
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. 750m between Ablation Point and Jupiter Glacier, Alexander Island, George VI Sound, were photographed from the air by RARE in 1947 and mapped from air photographs by FIDS in 1959; following surveys by BAS from "Fossil Bluff", 1961-73, named in association with the glacier after Ganymede, one of the satellites of Jupiter (APC, 1975, p.3; USGS sketch map Palmer Land (North Part), 1979; BAS 250P sheet SR 19-20/10, 2-DOS 1984).
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