Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Schmidt Hills (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Schmidt Hills (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:
between Foundation Ice Stream and Roderick Valley, Neptune Range, Pensacola Mountains, rising to c. 1070m at Mount Nervo and including also Mount Coulter, Pepper Peak, Robbins Nunatak and Wall Rock, were photographed from the air by USN and surveyed from the ground by USGS, 1963-64; named after Dwight L. Schmidt, USGS geologist in the Pensacola Mountains, 1962-63, 1963-64 and 1965-66 ([in 83°15'S 57°15'W] USBGN, 1965, p.105; [co-ordinates corrected] USGS sheet SU 21-25/13, 1969; APC, 1974, p.6).
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