Playfair Mountains (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Playfair Mountains (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Mountain
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. 650m between Swann Glacier and Squires Glacier, Lassiter Coast, and including Mount Kane and Squires Peak, were photographed from the air by USN, 1965-67, and mapped from air photographs by USGS; in association with the names of pioneer geologists grouped on this coast, named after John Playfair (1748-1819), Scottish mathematician and geologist; Professor of Mathematics, Edinburgh University, 1783-1805 (USGS sketch map Ellsworth Land-Palmer Land, 1969; APC, 1975, p.4; BAS 500P sheet SS 17-20/SE, 1-DOS 1981).
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