Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Strathcona, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Strathcona (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:
An outstanding nunatak about 1380 m high, rising above the ice-cap on the western side of the Denman Glacier, 28 km south of Mount Barr Smith in Queen Mary Land. Discovered by the Western Base Party of AAE (1911-14). Named by Sir Douglas Mawson after Lord Strathcona, High Commissioner for Canada in 1911 and a patron of the expedition.
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