Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Cartwright, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Cartwright (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 sharp peak in an elevated north-south ridge, with high rock exposures, rising to an elevation of about 3300m in the Hughes Range, 15 miles north of Mt Kaplan. Discovered and photographed by the US Antarctic Service Expedition, 1939-41, on Flight C of 29 February - 1 March, 1940, and surveyed by A P Crary in 1957-58. Named by Crary for Gorden Cartwright, first of the US exchange IGY scientists, who spent the season 1957-58 at the USSR Antarctic base at Mirny.
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