Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Swadener, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Swadener (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Peak
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:
A peak in the Sneddon Nunataks, in the north portion of the Alexandra Mountains of King Edward VII Land.
Mapped by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1959-66. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Lieutenant John R. Swadener, U.S. Navy (USN), navigator of the ski-equipped R4D in which R. Admiral George Dufek made the first aircraft landing at the geographic South Pole, on Oct. 31, 1956.
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