Strauss, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Strauss (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. 400m at head of Brahms Inlet, Beethoven Peninsula, Alexander Island, was photographed from the air by RARE in December 1947 and mapped from air photographs by FIDS in 1959; in association with the names of other composers in this area, named after Johann Strauss (1804-49), Austrian composer, and Richard Georg Strauss (1864-1949), German composer ([in 71°32'S 73°11'W] APC, 1961, p.3; USHO chart V30-SP6, 1962; DOS 710 sheet 14, 1963; Searle, 1963, end map; [co-ordinates corrected from USLANDSAT imagery of January 1973] BAS 250P SR 17-18/15, 16, 1-DOS 1974; APC, 1977, p.32). Mount Straus [ sic] (USOO chart 16384-5, 1968).
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