Hindson, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Hindson (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 815m NNE of Cape Lancaster, SE Anvers Island, was surveyed from the E by FIDS from "Port Lockroy" in 1944; called Monte Ancla [=anchor mountain] by AAE, possibly in reference to its use as an anchor bearing (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.268; Pierrou, 1970, p.164); resurveyed by FIDS from "Arthur Harbour" in 1955 and named Mount Hindson after William John Hindson (b. 1935), FIDS assistant surveyor, "Arthur Harbour", 1955-56 (APC, 1958, p.5; BA chart 3572, 25.vii.1958). Mount Ancla (USBGN, 1965, p.92).
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