Bumstead, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Bumstead (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Mountain (2a)
This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A mountain, about 3200m high, in the Gosvenor Range, standing south-west of the head of Shackleton Glacier at the edge of the South Polar Plateau in the Queen Maud Range. Discovered by the Byrd AE, 1928-30, on Byrd's flight to the South Pole in November 1929. Named by Byrd for Albert H Bumstead, chief cartographer of the National Geographic Society at that time, and inventor of the sun compass, a device utilising shadows of the sun to determine directions in areas where magnetic compasses are unreliable.
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