Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
M'Clintock Bastion (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
M'Clintock Bastion (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Buttress
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. 1300m on Pioneers Escarpment (q.v.), E Shackleton Range, in association with the names of pioneers of polar life and travel grouped in this area, was named after Adm. Sir (Francis) Leopold M'Clintock, RN (1819-1907), British Arctic explorer and pioneer in adopting Eskimo methods of overland travel; he took part in three Franklin search voyages, 1848-54, and commanded Fox, 1857-59, on the voyage to Arctic Canada that finally determined the fate of Sir John Franklin's expedition (APC, 1974, p.5; BAS 250P sheet SU 26-30/1, 1-DOS 1978).
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