Herschel Heights (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Herschel Heights (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Heights (2b)
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 complex of nunataks of which Mimas Peak on the east is the highest, located SW of Enceladus Nunataks and near the head of Saturn Glacier in southeastern Alexander Island. The eastern part of this feature was photographed by Lincoln Ellsworth, Nov. 23, 1935, in the course of his trans-Antarctic flight and was plotted from the air photos by W.L.G. Joerg. Named by UK-APC from association with Mimas and Enceladus, after Sir Frederick W. Herschel (1738-1822), the British astronomer who discovered these two satellites.
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