Scaife Mountains (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Scaife 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. 1300m between Ketchum Glacier and Ueda Glacier, Orville Coast, and including Mount Brundage, Mount Macnowski and Mount Terwileger, were seen from the air by RARE, 21 November 1947, but inaccurately located; named after Allan M. Scaife, of Pittsburgh, Pa, a contributor to RARE ([in c. 75°30'S 63°25'W] Ronne, 1948b, p.378 [titles of Figs 20 and 22 transposed in error]; 1949, map p.249 and p.289; USHO chart 6639, 1955; [co-ordinates corrected] USGS sketch map Ellsworth Land-Palmer Land, 1969; APC, 1975, p.5; BAS 500 sheet SS 17-20/SE, 1-DOS 1981). Gory Skayf (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). The mountains were photographed from the air by USN, 1965-67, and mapped from air photographs by USGS. Gory Skeyf (Soviet Union. AA, 1966, Pl.24).
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