Hutton Mountains (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Hutton Mountains (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:
are bounded to SW by Johnston Glacier, to NW by Squires Glacier, to N by Swann Glacier and to E by Keller Inlet and Smith Peninsula, Lassiter Coast, rising to c. 1700m and including from W to E Mount McElroy, Mount Rath, Mount Nash, Mount Gorham, Mount Light and Mount Tricorn; were photographed from the air by USN, 1965-67, and mapped from air photographs by USGS; in association with the names of pioneer geologists grouped in this area, named after James Hutton (1726-97), Scottish geologist who propounded the principle of uniformitarianism in 1785 (USGS sketch map Ellsworth Land-Palmer Land, 1969; APC, 1975, p.4; BAS 500P sheet SS 17-20/SE, 1-DOS 1981). Cordón Trenque Lauquen, apparently referring to the SE part of this feature after the district in Argentina (Argentina. MD, 1978, letter T).
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