Lyon Peak (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Lyon 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. 1000m on W coast of Trinity Island, Palmer Archipelago, was called Monte Torre [=tower mountain] by AAE, possibly in error for Tower Hill (q.v.) to the NNE (Argentina. MM chart OMEGA, 1954); following air photography by FIDASE in 1956, named Lyon Peak after Percy Comyn Lyon (1862-1952), of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research; Chairman, Interdepartmental Committee on Research and Development in the Dependencies of the Falkland Islands, 1917-20 (APC, 1960, p.5).
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