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)
Dismal Mountains (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Dismal Mountains (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 group of nunataks about 57 km south of Rayner Peak in Kemp Land. Photographed in 1956 by ANARE aircraft. Surveyed in December, 1958, by G A Knuckey during a dog-sledge journey from Amundsen Bay to Mawson. So named because the mountains are frequently shrouded in cloud.
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