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Name Latitude Longitude Feature Type
Ditte, monte (ARG) 67° 43' 00.0" S 68° 37' 00.0" W Mountain
Name ID: 100707 Place ID: 3684

Ditte, Monte (CHL) 67° 43' 00.0" S 68° 37' 00.0" W Mountain
Name ID: 105451 Place ID: 3684

Descubierto por la Expedición Antártica Francesa de 1908-1910, al mando del Dr. Jean B. Charcot y bautizado en honor a Alfred Ditte, químico francés y miembro de la Academia de Ciencias de París. Monte ubicado sobre el cabo Alexandra en el extremo SE de la isla Adelaida, al N de bahía Margarita.

Mount Ditte (GBR) 67° 43' 00.0" S 68° 37' 00.0" W Mountain
Name ID: 108526 Place ID: 3684

rising to c. 1550m in S Adelaide Island, was roughly mapped by FAE, 1903-05, and named Massif A. Ditte after Alfred Ditte (1843-1908), French chemist and member of the Académie des Sciences (Charcot, 1912, Pl. 12). Mount Ditte (BA, 1916, photograph facing p.409; Wilkins, 1929, map facing p.374; BA chart 3196, 12.xi.1948; DCS 601 sheet 67 68, 1954; APC, 1955, p.8). A. Ditte Fj. (HA chart, 1927). Mount A. Ditte (USHO, 1943, p.154). The mountain was surveyed by FIDS from "Stonington Island" in October 1948. Monte Ditte (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.298a; Pierrou, 1970, p.317; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.103).

Mount Ditte (USA) 67° 43' 00.0" S 68° 37' 00.0" W Mountain
Name ID: 124390 Place ID: 3684

Mountain, 1,400 m, surmounting Cape Alexandra in the SE extremity of Adelaide Island. Discovered by the FrAE, 1908-10, and named by Charcot for Alfred Ditte, noted French chemist.

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