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Gutenko Mountains (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Gutenko Mountains (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. 1700m SW of Dyer Plateau, central Palmer Land, and including from N to S Elliott Hills, Rathbone Hills, Guthridge Nunataks and Blanchard Nunataks, were seen from the air by RARE, 21 November and 23 December 1947; roughly mapped in c.72 15'S 64 15'W and named Gutenko Mountains (Ronne, 1948a, map p.357, p.384) or Vincent Gutenko Mountains (AGS map, 1948; Ronne, 1948b, p.369) after the Gutenko family of Baltimore, Md, of which Sigmund Gutenko, USN, served as chief commissary steward with RARE. Montes Gutenko (Argentina. MM chart N-"P"-1, 1952). Montagne Gutenko (Zavatti, 1960a, p.1419). Gory Gutenko (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). The mountains were photographed from the air by USN, 1966-69, and surveyed from the ground by BAS from "Stonington Island", 1971-72. Gutenko Mountains, as now defined (APC, 1977, p.15; USGS sketch map Palmer Land (North Part), 1979); BAS sheet Misc. 2, 1981).
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