Skidmore, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Skidmore (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 865m in NW Shackleton Range, was roughly surveyed by TAE in October 1957 and named Mount Lagrange [sic] after J.J. La Grange (La Grange Nunataks, q.v.) (APC, 1962, p.19; DOS 610 sheet W 80 28/30, 1963); following resurvey by BAS from Halley, 1968-71, renamed Mount Skidmore after Michael John Skidmore (b. 1943), BAS geologist, Halley, 1967-69, who worked in the area (APC, 1974, p.6; BAS 250P sheet SU 26-30/1, 1-DOS 1978).
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