Rendu, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Rendu (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. 2100m between Reid Glacier and Heim Glacier, Arrowsmith Peninsula, Loubet Coast, were photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57; in association with the names of glaciologists grouped in this area, named after Louis Rendu (1789-1859), French Bishop and scientist; author of Théorie des glaciers de la Savoie (Chambéry, 1840), an important book on the mechanism of glacier flow (APC, 1960, p.7; BAS 250P sheet SQ 19-20/14 (Ext.), 1-DOS 1978).
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