Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Schwerdtfeger, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Schwerdtfeger (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Mountain
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:
A peak (2950 m) on the ridge at the head of Renegar Glacier, 1.75 miles south of Mount Kempe in Royal Society Range, Victoria Land. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (1994) after Werner Schwerdtfeger, senior meteorological researcher, University of Wisconsin, a driving force in the study of Antarctic meteorology. His specialty was the study of the barrier winds east of the Antarctic Peninsula.
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