Stair Hill (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Stair Hill (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Hill
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. 500m on SW side of the head of Holtedahl Bay, Graham Coast, was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57; in association with the names of pioneers of research on snow-blindness and design of snow-goggles grouped in this area, named after Ralph Stair (b.1900), physicist with the US National Bureau of Standards, who worked on the transmissive properties of tinted glass (APC, 1959a, p.11).
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