Meunier, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Meunier (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.
A mountain rising to 665 m near the NE end of Kohler Range, 3 mi E of Mount Strange. The N slopes of the feature are partly ice free and overlook Dotson Ice Shelf on the Walgreen Coast, Marie Byrd Land. Mapped by USGS from surveys and USN aerial photographs, 1959-67. Named by US-ACAN in 1977 after Tony Kenneth Meunier, cartographer and physical scientist with USGS from 1972; member of USGS satellite surveying team at South Pole Station, winter party, 1974; member of Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) team in the Allan Hills area, 1982-83, initiating a plan for positioning, by satellite surveying methods, the location of meteorites discovered in field operations; from 1991, in Polar Programs Section, Office of International Activities, USGS.
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