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Abbs, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Abbs (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:
The most prominent peak in the central part of the Aramis Range, Prince Charles Mountains. It has an almost vertical face on the northern side. Shaped like a truncated pyramid, it is 4 km long in an east-west direction and 2 km north-south. Situated about 18 km SSE of Mt. McCarthy and discovered by the ANARE southern party led by W.G. Bewsher in December, 1956. Named after Gordon Abbs, radio operator at Mawson in 1956.
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