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)
Wegener, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Wegener (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:
Mountain rising to 1,385 m in central Read Mountains, Shackleton Range. The feature was photographed from the air by the U.S. Navy, 1967. Surveyed by BAS, 1968-71. Named by the UK-APC in association with the names of geologists grouped in this area after Alfred L. Wegener (1880-1930), German astronomer, meteorologist, and Arctic explorer; a pioneer of the theory of continental drift; Professor of Geophysics and Meteorology, University of Graz, Austria, 1924-30; Leader of German expeditions to Greenland in 1929 and 1930, losing life on the ice cap in November of that year.
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