Nicol Crags (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Nicol Crags (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Crag
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.1300m on S side of Read Mountains, Shackleton Range, were photographed from the air by USN in 1967 and surveyed from the ground by BAS from Halley, 1968-71; in association with the names of geologists grouped in this area, named after William Nicol (c.1768-1851), Scottish natural philosopher who devised the Nicol prism and the preparation of thin rock sections, thus contributing to the techniques of microscopy (APC, 1974, p.5; BAS 250P sheet SU 26-30/1, 1-DOS 1978).
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