Head Mountains (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Head Mountains (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Range (2a)
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 group of mountains due south of Gateway Nunatak and at the head of Mackay Glacier, near the interior ice plateau of Victoria Land. From west to east the group includes Mount DeWitt, Mount Littlepage, Mount Dearborn and Coalbed Mountain. Feature shown on: NZ AntTopo50-MD06
Named by United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (2007) after James W. Head III, Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, internationally known planetary scientist whose investigations in McMurdo Dry Valleys 2002-06 have led to important advances to the concept of Antarctica as an analogue of Martian features.
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