Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Hawkes, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Hawkes (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Mountain (2a)
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:
The highest mountain (1,975 m) along the Washington Escarpment, standing at the E side of Jones Valley in the Neptune Range, Pensacola Mountains. Discovered and photographed on Jan. 13, 1956 in the course of the trans-Antarctic nonstop plane flight by personnel of USN Operation Deep Freeze I from McMurdo Sound to the Weddell Sea and return. Named by US-ACAN for Cdr. William M. Hawkes, USN, co-pilot of the P2V-2N Neptune aircraft making this flight.
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