Seward Mountains (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Seward 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. 1350m SE of Buttress Nunataks, George VI Sound, were roughly surveyed by BGLE in October 1936 and named after Sir Albert Charles Seward (1863-1941), British palaeobotanist; Professor of Botany, 1906-36, and Vice-Chancellor, 1924-26, Cambridge University; first Chairman, Committee of Management, SPRI; member of BGLE Advisory Committee (Rymill, 1938b; BA chart 3175 1.iii.1940; Stephenson, 1940, map facing p.232; APC, 1955, p.19; [in 72°26'S 66°15'W] DCS 601 sheet W 72 66, 1956; [co-ordinates corrected] APC, 1977, p.29; USGS sketch map Palmer Land (North Part), 1979). Montes Seward (Rymill and others, 1943, map facing p.272). Seward Nunataks (USAF chart 1808, 1948). Monte Seward (Argentina. MM chart 110, 1949). Seward Bergen, Monti Seward (Knapp, 1958, p.585 and Tav. 9). Gori Sivard (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). Gory Sivard (Soviet Union. AA, 1966, Pl. 24). The mountains were photographed from the air by USN, 1966-69, and resurveyed from the ground by BAS from "Fossil Bluff", 1974-75.
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