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)
Creswick Peaks (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Creswick Peaks (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Peak (2d)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
An impressive mountain massif with several peaks, the highest 1,465 m, standing at the NE side of Moore Point between Naess and Meiklejohn Glaciers, and 3 mi inland from George VI Sound on the W coast of Palmer Land. First surveyed in 1936 by the BGLE under Rymill. Named by the UK-APC in 1954 after Frances E. Creswick (now Mrs. James I. Moore--see Moore Point), Asst. to the Dir. of the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, 1931-38, who helped to organize the BGLE, 1934-37.
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