Reeves, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Reeves (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. 1920m W of Tickle Channel, E Adelaide Island, was roughly charted by FAE, 1908-10, in January 1909 (Charcot, 1912, Pl. 2); called in error Massif Bouvier (Mount Bouvier, q.v.) (Bongrain, 1914, vues 28 and 31 following p.60); surveyed by FIDS from "Stonington Island" in September 1948 and named after Edward Ayearst Reeves (1862-1945), Map Curator and Instructor in Survey, RGS, 1900-33, and Editor of Hints to travellers, Vol. 1, 9th-11th editions (APC, 1955, p.17; BA 1956, p.76; chart 3570, 21.ix.1957; 3571, 14.vii.1961). Mount Bouvier, in error (USHO, 1960, p.369, 4th view). Mount VĂ©lain (q.v.), in error (USHO, 1960, p.370, 1st view). Monte Bruyne, so called by CAE after Pedro A. de Bruyne who, in 1905 with A. Andresen (Andresen Island, q.v.), formed a society which the following year became the Sociedad Ballenera de Magallanes, officially recognized by the Chilean government (Chile. DNH chart 1600, 1963; IHA, 1974, p.57). Monte Bouvier, rejected as erroneously applied (Chile. IHA, 1974, p.57).
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