Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Burton, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Burton (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:
Approximately 2900m high. A greywacke peak, 6 miles south of Mt McDonald at the head of Trafalgar Glacier. Named by the NZFMCAE, 1962-63, for William Burton, Leading Stoker, RN, a member of the crew of the "Terra Nova" of the BAE, 1910-13. Burton who lives in New Zealand, was a guest of the US Navy during the 1962-63 Antarctic season when he visited the continent again with two others of Scott's veterans.
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