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Walton Heights (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Walton Heights (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Heights
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
rising to c.800 m at head of Haydn Inlet, Alexander Island, forming part of Douglas Range, were photographed from the air by RARE in 1947 and mapped from air photographs by FIDS in 1959; named after Jonathan Launcelot William Walton (b.1950), BAS surveyor and glaciologist, 1975-86 ("Fossil Bluff", 1975-76; Rothera, 1978-79); son of E. W. K. Walton (Walton Peak, q.v.) (APC, 1980, p.5; BAS, 250P sheet SR 19-20/9, 2-DOS 1980).
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