Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Morgagni, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Morgagni (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. 1150 m between Bouquet Bay and Hill Bay, NE Brabant Island, was called Monte Cabeza [=head mountain] by AAE (Argentina. MM chart OO, 1954); photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57; in association with the names of pioneers of medicine grouped in this area, named after Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682-1771), Italian anatomist and founder of scientific pathological anatomy (APC, 1960, p.6; BAS 250 sheet SQ 19-20/4, 1-DOS 1974). Mount Cabeza (USBGN, 1965, p.94).
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