Tennant, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Tennant (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 690m on N Rongé Island (q.v.), Danco Coast, following the cruise of HMS Snipe in this area in January 1948, was named after Adm. Sir William George Tennant, RN (1890-1963), Commander-in-Chief, America and West Indies Station, 1946-49, who flying his flag in HMS Nigeria cruised as far S as Drake Passage in January 1949 (APC, 1955, p.20; BA chart 3213, 23.iii.1956; BAS 250 sheet SQ 19-20/4, 1-DOS 1974). Pico Lucy, Monte Lucía (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.258a, 264b). Monte Lucy, as rejected name (Argentina. MM, 1957a, p.6). Monte Tennent [sic] (Chile. DNH, 1962, p.143). Monte Tennant (Chile. IHA, 1974, p.275).
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