Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Britannia Range (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Britannia Range (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Range (2c)
This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A range of mountains, lying between the Cape Murray depression and Barne Inlet, westward of the Ross Ice Shelf. Discovered by the NAE, 1901-04, by the Southern Polar Party in 1902. Surveyed in 1903 by Lieutenant Michale Barne, RN, and Sub-Lieutenant George FA Mulock, RN, members of this expedition. Named after HMS Britannia, the well known naval college in England which had been attended by many officers of Scott's expedition.
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