Willis, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Willis (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Mountain
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 mountain rising to approximately 2179m in the centre of its ice-cap, 4km south of Mount Chalmers in the southern part of the Conway Range. Feature shown on: NZ AntTopo50-ML06
Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named by United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Lieutenant Commander Charles H. Willis, U.S. Navy, commander of USS Wilhoite, radar picket escort vessel which maintained an ocean station in support of aircraft flights between New Zealand and Antarctica during U.S. Navy Operation Deep Freeze 1961.
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