Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Béchervaise, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Béchervaise (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 great massif of brown rock in the Athos Range, Prince Charles Mountains, rising sheer from the plateau ice on the northern face, with steep slopes on the other sides. It is bare, except for an ice cap on the flat summit area. It is 2362 m above sea level. First visited in November, 1955, by an ANARE party led by John M Béchervaise, Officer-in-Charge Mawson in 1955, after whom it was named.
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