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Kyffin, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Kyffin (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 mountain, 1778m high in the Commonwealth Range, projecting into the eastern side of the Beardmore Glacier and rising precipitously above it, about 22 miles up the glacier from Mt Kathleen at the head of the Ross Ice Shelf. Discovered by the BAE, 1907-09, in December 1908. Named for Evan Kyffin-Thomas, one of the proprietors of the Register, an Adelaide, South Australian, newspaper. He was a travelling companion of Shackleon's on the voyage out from England.
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