Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Melbourne, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Melbourne (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 conspicuous volcanic cone, about 2590m high, at the back of Cape Washington, and between Terra Nova Bay and Wood Bay in Victoria Land. Discovered in January 1841 by Ross, who named it for Lord Melbourne, who was the British Prime Minister when the expedition was planned, and who gave it much encouragement. It is so strikingly similar in outline to Mt Etna in Sicily that on both ships it went first by that name. It is the most magnificent landmark on this part of the coast.
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