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Buckley, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Buckley (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Mountain (2a)
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 peak, 2555m high, lying close north-east of Mt Darwin on the western side of the head of the Beardmore Glacier. Discovered and named by the BAE, 1907-09, in December 1908 for George Buckley, of Ashburton, New Zealand, a supporter of the expedition. Buckley travelled on the Nimrod as far as the pack ice, then transhipped to the Koonya.
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