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)
Football Mountain (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Football Mountain (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:
The mountain, 822m high, on the ridge between Edisto Inlet and Tucker Glacier having a very prominet and peculiar rock scar called The Football on its north side. It was occupied as a survey station, and marked by a large rock cairn, by the NZ Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition, 1957-58. Named by them for The Football.
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