Gauss, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Gauss (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 massif with a cap of black rock, rising to approximately 1131m and lying due north of Mount Chetwynd on the southern side of the Mawson Glacier in the Prince Albert Mountains of Victoria Land. Feature shown on: NZ AntTopo50-MB08
Discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition (Discovery Expedition, BrNAE), 1901-04, which named this mountain for Professor Karl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician and astronomer, who calculated the position of the Magnetic Pole in 1838-39.
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