Lewis Chain (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Lewis Chain (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Hill
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:
four nunataks aligned N-S, rising to 1110m and forming part of La Grange Nunataks, on W side of Gordon Glacier, Shackleton Range. Following survey by TAE in October 1957, the name Mount Lewis was applied to the S-most and highest nunatak, after Squadron Ldr (later Group Capt.) John Harding Lewis, RAF (1922-90), Senior Pilot with RAF contingent, TAE, 1956-58, who accompanied by Flight Lieut. G.M. Haslop (Mount Haslop, q.v.) made the first trans-Antarctic flight in a single-engined aircraft (DHC-3 Otter), 6-7 January 1958, a distance of c. 2250km from "South Ice" to "Scott Base", McMurdo Sound in 11 hours; Senior Pilot with FIDS, 1949-50 (Lewis Peaks, q.v.) (APC, 1962, p.19; DOS sheet W 80 24/26, 1963). Following further survey by BAS from Halley, 1968-71, the name was altered to Lewis Chain, referring to the whole feature (APC, 1974, p.5; BAS 250P sheet SU 26-30/1, 1-DOS 1978).
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