Rubin Peak (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Rubin Peak (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Peak (2d)
This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A prominent rock summit rising to over 1100m in the central part of Carnegie Range, Churchill Mountains. The peak is 20km north of Russell Bluff. Named after Vera Rubin, observational astronomer, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1965-2002; with Carnegie Institution co-worker Kent Ford, Rubin confirmed that most of the universe consists of dark matter, 1978.
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