Levassor Nunatak (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Levassor Nunatak (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Nunatak
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 550m at W end of Cugnot Ice Piedmont, Trinity Peninsula, and on N side of Prince Gustav Channel, was surveyed by FIDS from "Hope Bay, 1960-61; in association with the names of pioneers of overland mechanical transport grouped in this area, named after Emile Levassor (1844-97), French engineer who, in 1891, was jointly responsible with R. Panhard (Panhard Nunatak, q.v.) for a motor car design on principles followed in most later developments (APC, 1964, p.3; BAS 250 sheet SP 21-22/13, 1-DOS 1974). Cerro Gancedo, so called by AAE after a member of the expedition (Argentina. MD, 1978, letter G).
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