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Burnham, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Burnham (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Peak
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 ice-covered mountain forming the south-western extremity of the Daniels Range. Plotted from air photographs taken by the US Navy in 1960-62. Named after J B Burnham, ionosphere physicist, who wintered at the South Pole Station in 1958 and 1961.
J B Burnham, ionosphere physicist, South Pole Station, 1958 and 1961
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