Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Prestrud, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Prestrud (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:
One of a group of low-lying peaks barely protruding through the ice-cap covering the South Polar Plateau, rising to a height of about 3261m, about 25 miles south-west of the Thorvald Nilsen Mountains in the Queen Maud Range. Discovered by Amundsen in November 1911 on his journey to the South Pole and named by him for Lieutenant K Prestrud, first officer on the expedition ship Fram and leader of the Eastern Sledge Party of the expedition.
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