Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Metschel, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Metschel (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 conspicuous ice-free mountain, surmounted by a peak 1,843 m high, 7 km south-east of Angino Buttress and Skelton Icefalls. Plotted from US Navy air photographs. Named by USACAN after Cmdr. J.J. Metschel, USN, commander of the Icebreaker, USS Staten Island, 1962-63.
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