Melville Highlands (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Melville Highlands (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: None recorded.
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:
An ice-covered upland rising to c. 500 m and forming the central part of Laurie Island between Pirie Peninsula and the south coast, in the South Orkney Islands. A new name applied by the UK-APC in 1987. Historically, it derives from James Weddell's map of 1825 whereon the name "Melville Island" appears for the already named Laurie Island. Robert S. Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville (1771-1851), was First Lord of the Admiralty, 1812-27 and 1828-30, including the period of Antarctic exploration by Weddell.
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