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Channon, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Channon (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 prominent, isolated peak about 57km SSW of Rayner Peak in Kemp Land. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Nevlingen by Norwegian cartographers. First visited by an ANARE dog-sledge party in December, 1958, when an astrofix was obtained by G A Knuckey.
Named after Dr J E G Channon, medical officer at Mawson in 1958.
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