Du Toit Mountains (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Du Toit Mountains (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Mountain (2a)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A group of mountains about 35 mi long and 10 mi wide, to the SW of Wilson Mountains in SE Palmer Land. The mountains have peaks rising to 1,700 m and are bounded by Beaumont Glacier, Maury Glacier and Defant Glacier. First photographed from the air by the USAS, 1940; rephotographed by the U.S. Navy, 1966-69, and mapped from the photographs by the USGS. In association with the names of continental drift scientists grouped in this area, named by US-ACAN after Alexander Logie Du Toit (1878-1948), South African geologist, an early proponent of the theory of continental drift.
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