Hess Mountains (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Hess 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 rising to c. 1,500 m at the head of Hilton Inlet, Black Coast, to the W of Dietz Bluff and bounded to N by Gruening Glacier, to W by Runcorn Glacier and to S by Beaumont Glacier. First photographed from the air by the USAS, 1940. Mapped by USGS from aerial photographs taken by the U.S. Navy, 1966-69. Surveyed by BAS, 1972-73. In association with the names of continental drift scientists grouped in this area, named by US-ACAN, 1978, after Harry H. Hess (1906-69), American geologist, Professor of Geology, Princeton University, 1948-69.
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