Vélain, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Vélain (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.920 m SSW of Cape Mascart, Adelaide Island, on W side of Buchanan Passage, was possibly sighted by Biscoe in February 1832; roughly charted by FAE, 1903-05, on 14 January 1905 and named Sommet Vélain after Charles Vélain (1845-1925), French geologist and geographer; Professor of Physical Geography, Sorbonne, Paris, and a member of the commission appointed to publish the scientific results of the expedition (Charcot, 1906a, map facing p.316; 1912, Pl.1; BA, 1916, p.408). St. Vélain (BA chart 1238, ix.1908). The feature was further charted by FAE, 1908-10, in January 1909. Vélain Peak (Charcot, [1911b], p.92). Mont Vélain (France. SHM, 1937, p.409). Pic Vélain (Oulié, 1938, p.94). Mount Velain [sic] (BA chart 3175, 1.iii.1940; DCS 9 sheet C, 1948). The mountain was photographed from the air by RARE in 1947. Mount Vélain (BA chart 3196, 12.xi.1948; [incorrectly shown in the position of Mount Machatschek, q.v.] USBGN, 1951, p.51; APC, 1955, p.21; [correctly shown] DCS 601 sheet 66 66, 1955; [incorrectly shown in the position of Blümcke Knoll, q.v.] USBGN, 1956, p.313; [correctly shown] APC, 1960 p.8; USBGN, 1969, p.204; BAS 250P sheet SQ 19-20/10, 1-DOS 1979). Monte Vélain (Argentina. MM chart 108, 1949; [incorrectly shown in the position of Mount Machatschek] 132, 1957; [correctly shown] Pierrou, 1970, p.709; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.292). The mountain was surveyed from the ground by FIDS from "Detaille Island", 1958-59. Gora Velen (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). Monte Valain [sic] (Chile. IGM map 12, 1966).
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