Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Nivea, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Nivea (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 mountain (1265m) on Coronation Island, at head of Sunshine Glacier, was surveyed by FIDS from Signy, 1948-49, and named after the snow petrel (Pagodroma nivea) which breeds in this locality (APC, 1955, p.16; DOS 510 South Orkney Islands, West Sheet, 1963); resurveyed by FIDS from Signy, 1956-58, and climbed, 11 September 1956.
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