Gravier Peaks (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Gravier Peaks (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Peak (2d)
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:
Prominent, ice-covered peaks, the highest 2,315 m, situated 2 mi NE of Lewis Peaks on Arrowsmith Peninsula and extending in a NE-SW direction, on the W coast of Graham Land. First sighted and roughly positioned in 1903 by the FrAE under Charcot, who named the feature for Charles Gravier, French zoologist. Surveyed in 1909 by the FrAE under Charcot, at which time the individual peaks making up this group were first identified. The data for the present description is largely based upon a resurvey of the peaks in 1948 by the FIDS.
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