Gluck Peak (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Gluck Peak (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Peak
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. 500m on NW side of Boccherini Inlet, Beethoven Peninsula, Alexander Island, was photographed from the air by RARE in December 1947; following map compilation from air photographs by FIDS in 1959, named after Christoph Willibald von Gluck (1714-87), Austrian composer, in association with the names of other composers in this area ([in 71 39'S 72 35'W] APC, 1961, p.3; USHO chart V30-SP6, 1962; DOS 710 sheet 14, 1963; Searle, 1963, end map; [co-ordinates corrected from USLANDSAT imagery of January 1973] BAS 250P sheet SR 17-18/15, 16, 1-DOS 1974; APC, 1977, p.15). Pik Glyuka (Soviet Union. AA, 1966, Pl.24).
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