Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Schmitt Mesa (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Schmitt Mesa (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: None recorded.
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:
S part of Latady Mountains (q.v.), Lassiter Coast, rising to c. 1000m, was named after Waldo LaSalle Schmitt (1887-1977), American marine biologist and Honorary Research Associate, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC; in FID mail ship Fleurus (Capt. Adamsen) to Deception Island in 1927 and in USCGC Staten Island on cruise to Marguerite Bay and the Weddell Sea, ODF, 1962-63; Editor of several volumes in the Antarctic Research Series of the American Geophysical Union (USGS sketch map Ellsworth Land-Palmer Land, 1969; APC, 1975, p.5; BAS 500P sheet SS 17-20/SE, 1-DOS 1981).
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