Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Stansbury Peninsula (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Stansbury Peninsula (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 Edgell Bay (Nelson Island) and Fildes Strait, following geological work by BAS, 1975-76, was named after Michael John Stansbury (b.1933), BAS meteorologist, Grytviken, 1958-59, and Base Leader, "Admiralty Bay", 1959-60 (APC, 1980, p.5). Helicopter Hills, so called by PAE in reference to successful helicopter landings in the 1980-81 season (Birkenmajer, 1980b, map Fig. 4, p.167 and p.170). Wzgórze Helikoptera (Birkenmajer, 1980b, p.170).
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