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South Beacon (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
South Beacon (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Butte
This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
The summit of a bold, flat-topped ridge rising to 2211m in the south part of Beacon Heights, in the Quartermain Mountains, Victoria Land. A ridge system connects South Beacon with West Beacon, 2.9km north, and East Beacon, 3km northeast. Feature depicted on: NZ AntTopo50-MF07
So named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) following geological work here by C.T. McElroy, G. Rose, and K.J. Whitby in 1980-81
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