Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Austin, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Austin (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Mountain
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
rising to 955m at head of Gardner Inlet, Orville Coast, was photographed from the air and from the ground by RARE on 21 November 1947 (Ronne, 1948b, photograph Fig. 16, p.371); surveyed by FIDS-RARE from "Stonington Island" in 1947-48; named Mount Stephen Austin after Stephen Fuller Austin (1793-1836), American colonizer in Texas and one of the founders of the Republic of Texas in 1821 (AGS, map 1948; Ronne, 1948b, p.390). Mount Austin (Ronne, 1948b, p.371; APC, 1955, p.4; DOS 601 sheet W 74 62, 1958; USGS sketch map Ellsworth Land-Palmer Land, 1969). Gora Ostin (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). Monte Austin (Chile. IGM map 28, 1966).
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