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)
Hawkes, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Hawkes (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:
highest peak (1975m) in Neptune Range, Pensacola Mountains, at S end of Washington Escarpment, was photographed from the air by USN, 13 January 1956, on a non-stop flight from McMurdo Sound, Ross Dependency, to the Weddell Sea and back; in association with the names of other crew members grouped in this area, named after Cdr (later Capt.) William M. Hawkes, USN, co-pilot of the P2V-2N Neptune aircraft on this flight; pilot-in-command of one of the two aircraft making the first flight from Christchurch, New Zealand, to McMurdo Sound, 17 December 1955; co-pilot of the ski-equipped R4D Skytrain aircraft Que Sera Sera on the first air landing at the South Pole, 31 October 1956 ([shown in c. 83 28'S 46 00'W, rising to c. 3660m] NGS map, 1957b; [in 84 28'S 54 00'W] USBGN, 1960, p.4; AGS map, 1962b; [in 83 28'S 54 00'W] USHO chart V30-SP11, 1963; [correctly shown] USGS sheet SU 21-25/13, 1969; APC, 1974, p.4). Gora Khoks (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). The mountain was surveyed from the ground by USGS and rephotographed from the air by USN, 1963-64.
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