Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Ditte, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Ditte (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 c. 1550m in S Adelaide Island, was roughly mapped by FAE, 1903-05, and named Massif A. Ditte after Alfred Ditte (1843-1908), French chemist and member of the Académie des Sciences (Charcot, 1912, Pl. 12). Mount Ditte (BA, 1916, photograph facing p.409; Wilkins, 1929, map facing p.374; BA chart 3196, 12.xi.1948; DCS 601 sheet 67 68, 1954; APC, 1955, p.8). A. Ditte Fj. (HA chart, 1927). Mount A. Ditte (USHO, 1943, p.154). The mountain was surveyed by FIDS from "Stonington Island" in October 1948. Monte Ditte (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.298a; Pierrou, 1970, p.317; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.103).
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