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Gist, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Gist (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Mountain
This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A mountain about 1,529 m above sea level, marked by a cluster of small peaks protruding above the ice, about 14.5 km WNW of Mount Strathcona in Queen Mary Land. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN operation Highjump (1946-47) and named by USACAN after Lieut. F.J. Gist, USN, co-pilot and navigator on Operation Highjump flights in this area.
Lieut. F.J. Gist, USN, co-pilot and navigator on Operation Highjump (1946-47)
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