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Flora, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Flora (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 520 m SE of Hope Bay, Trinity Peninsula, was roughly mapped by SwAE in 1902 and named Flora-Berg (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904b, Vol. 2, p.165) or Floras Berg (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904a, Del. 2, map facing p.248) from the rich fossil flora found there by the geologist J.G. Andersson (Andersson Island, q.v.). Montaña Flora (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904-05, Tomo 2, map facing p.280). Mount Flora (Nordenskjöld and others, 1905, map facing p. 434; BA chart 3213, 6.x.1950; APC, 1955, p.10; DOS 310 Hope Bay sheet, 1961). Monte Flora (Duse, 1907, map p.187; Pierrou, 1970, p.366; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.126). Mont Flora (Gourdon, 1908, p.41). The mountain was surveyed by FIDS from "Hope Bay", 1945-47, and resurveyed in 1955. Flora (Anderson, 1957, p.45).
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