Hunt Peak (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Hunt 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. 550m on N side of Stonehouse Bay, Adelaide Island, was roughly charted by FAE, 1908-10, in 1909; surveyed by FIDS from "Stonington Island" in September 1948 and named Hunt Point, after Sgt Kenneth Dawson Hunt, RAF (b. 1922), mechanic of the Norseman aircraft that flew from Argentine Islands to Stonington Island in January-February 1950 to relieve the FIDS station (Mount St. Louis, q.v.) (APC, 1955, p.12; BA chart 3570, 21.ix.1957); following air photography by FIDASE, 1956-57, and further ground survey by FIDS from "Horseshoe Island", 1957-58, renamed Hunt Peak (APC, 1960, p.5; BAS 250P sheet SQ 19-20/14 (Ext.), 1-DOS 1978).
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