Tioga Hill (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Tioga 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 280 m ESE of Port Jebsen, Signy Island, was surveyed by FIDS in 1947 and named after Tioga (Kapt. M. T. Moe, Moe Island, q.v.), one of the first factory ships to flense whales at sea, owned by Ingvald Bryde of Sandefjord, Norway, for the Pacific Whaling Company; Tioga was operating in the South Orkney Islands, 1912-13, and was anchored in Port Jebsen when, on the night of 4 February 1913, she dragged anchors in a gale, drifted on shore and became a total wreck (still visible in 1984) (Allardyce, Despatch, 11 April 1913) (APC, 1955, p.21; DOS 510 South Orkney Islands, West Sheet, 1963; 210 Signy Island sheet, 1-DOS 1973).
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