Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Peary, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Peary (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:
Conspicuous massif, 1,900 m, with a flat, snow-covered summit several miles in extent, surmounted by a marginal peak on the W, standing 7 mi ENE of Cape Tuxen and dominating the area between Wiggins and Bussey Glaciers on the W coast of Graham Land. Discovered by the FrAE, 1908-10, under Charcot and named by him for R. Admiral Robert E. Peary, USN, American Arctic explorer and first to attain the North Pole, in 1909.
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