Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Tyndall Mountains (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Tyndall Mountains (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:
extending N-S on Arrowsmith Peninsula, Loubet Coast, rising to c.2300 m at Gravier Peaks (q.v.), and including also Pryor Peak and Richardson Peak, were photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57; in association with the names of glaciologists grouped in this area, named after John Tyndall (1820-93), Irish physicist, mountaineer and pioneer glaciologist, author of works on glaciers and the physical properties of ice (APC, 1960, p.8; BAS 250P sheet SQ 19-20/14 (Ext.), 1-DOS 1978).
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