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Mount Kirkby
Kirkby, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Kirkby (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Mountain (2a)
Origin
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:
- Mount Kirkby (Australia)
- Mount Kirkby (Russia)
Narrative
A large, linear, flat-topped mountain about 3 mi E of Crohn Massif in the Porthos Range, Prince Charles Mountains. First visited in December 1956 by the ANARE southern party led by W.G. Bewsher. Named by ANCA for Sydney L. Kirkby, surveyor at Mawson Station in 1956.
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©AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1970
- Catalogue id
- 2017B6
- Photographer
- Manning, John
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