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Owen, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Owen (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 1135m on S side of Johnston Glacier, near head of Nantucket Inlet, Lassiter Coast, was photographed from the air by USAS, 30 December 1940, as one of "several isolated mountains" (USHO, 1943, p.277), and further photographed from the air by RARE, 21 November, 1947, when it was found to lie further N than previously reported (Ronne, 1948b, Fig.15, p.371); surveyed from the ground by FIDS-RARE from "Stonington Island" in December 1947; named Mount Arthur Owen ([incorrectly shown at head of Gardner Inlet in c. 74°30'S] AGS map, 1948) or Mount Owen (Ronne, 1948b, map p.357; BA chart 3175, 12.xi.1954; APC, 1955, p.16; DOS 601 sheet W 74 62, 1958; USGS sketch map Ellsworth Land-Palmer Land, 1969; BAS 500P sheet SS 17-20/SE, 1-DOS 1981), after Arthur Owen, boy scout with RARE and dog-driver with the FIDS-RARE sledge party, October 1947-January 1948. Monte Owen (Argentina. MM chart 121, 1957). Gora Ouen (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). The mountain was rephotographed from the air by USN, 1965-67, and mapped from air photographs by USGS.
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