Sheffield, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Sheffield (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:
N-most peak of Shackleton Range rising to 785m, was roughly surveyed by TAE in October 1957 and named after Alfred Harold Sheffield (1900-83), Chairman, IGY Radio Communications Working Group, who greatly assisted TAE in the radio field (APC, 1962, p.28; DOS 610 sheet W 80 24/26, 1963; BAS 250P sheet SU 26-30/1, 1-DOS 1978); photographed from the air by USN in 1967 and resurveyed from the ground by BAS from Halley, 1968-71.
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