Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Gaußberg (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Gaußberg (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Nunatak (2a)
This name originates from Germany. It is part of the Germany Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
The nunatak was surveyed and photographed from a moored balloon and photogrammetrically plotted at the large scale of 1:7500, Kaiser-Wilhelm-II.-Land (Wilhelm II Coast), Davis Coast. Surveyed during Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition (German South-Polar Expedition) 1901-1903 under Erich von Drygalski (1865-1949).
Carl Friedrich Gauß 1777-1855), German mathematician and astronomer; name of the expedition vessel 'Gauß".
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