Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Horatio Stump (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Horatio Stump (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Hill
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 165m at SW end of Fildes Peninsula, King George Island, was photographed from the air by FIDASE and surveyed from the ground by FIDS, 1956-57; in association with the names of nineteenth-century sealers in this area, named after the sealing ship Horatio (Capt. J. Weeks, Weeks Stack, q.v.) from London, which visited the South Shetland Islands, 1820-21 (APC, 1960, p.5; BA chart 1774, 14.ix.1962). Mushroom Hill, so called from its flat top (Hawkes, 1961, p.15). Pico Horatio Stump (Brazil. PenĂnsula Fildes map, 1984).
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