Kelvin Crests (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Kelvin Crests (The name as it would appear on a map)
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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:
running NE-SW and rising to c. 1150m at NE end of Forster Ice Piedmont, Fallières Coast, were roughly surveyed by BGLE in 1936-37 (Stephenson, 1940, map facing p.232) and photographed from the air by RARE in 1947; resurveyed from the SE by FIDS from "Stonington Island" in December 1958; in association with the names of pioneers of navigation grouped in this area, named after William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824-1907), Scottish physicist and engineer who improved the design of magnetic compasses, 1873-78, and also invented the Kelvin sounding machine, using wire instead of rope, in 1878; Professor of Natural Philosophy, 1846-99, and Chancellor, 1904-07, Glasgow University; President of the Royal Society, 1890-95 (APC, 1962, p.18; DOS 610 sheet W 69 66, 1963).
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