Timosthenes, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Timosthenes (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 prominent peak between the head of Hariot Glacier and the N side of Airy Glacier, 3 mi NW of Peregrinus Peak, in central Antarctic Peninsula. Photographed from the air by USAS, Sept. 28, 1940, and by RARE, Nov. 27, 1947. Surveyed by FIDS in Dec. 1958. Named by UK-APC after Aristotle Timosthenes of Rhodes, chief pilot of King Ptolemy II (285-246 B.C.), who wrote sailing directions and devised the windrose of 8 or 12 winds, later developed into the points of the compass.
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