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)
Wegener, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Wegener (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:
rising to 1385m in central Read Mountains, Shackleton Range, was photographed from the air by USN in 1967 and surveyed from the ground by BAS from Halley, 1968-71; in association with the names of geologists grouped in this area, named after Alfred Lothar Wegener (1880-1930), German astronomer, meteorologist and Arctic explorer who was a pioneer of the theory of continental drift; Professor of Geophysics and Meteorology, University of Graz, Austria, 1924-30; member of Danish expeditions to Greenland in 1906-08 and in 1911-13, when he took part in a crossing of the ice cap; Leader of German expeditions to Greenland in 1929 and in 1930, losing life on the ice cap in November of that year (APC, 1974, p.6; BAS 250P sheet SU 26-30/1, 1-DOS 1978).
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