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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| Bayonne, monte (ARG) | 68° 56' 00.0" S | 70° 59' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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| Bayonne, Monte (CHL) | 68° 56' 00.0" S | 70° 59' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 105166
Place ID: 1028
Fue descubierto por la Expedición Antártica Francesa de 1908-1910, al mando del Dr. Jean B. Charcot, quien denominó a los montes de esta isla con nombres de ciudades francesas. Monte de aproximadamente 1.400 metros de elevación, que está ubicado a 13,4 millas al SW del cabo Arauco, extremo N de la isla Alejandro I. |
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| Forpost Island (AUS) | 68° 52' 45.1" S | 77° 35' 51.0" E | Island |
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Name ID: 1028
Place ID: 4828
A small island in the extreme south-western part of the Rauer Group off the Ingrid Christensen Coast. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956 and ANARE in 1956 and 1957. |
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| Mount Bayonne (GBR) | 68° 55' 00.0" S | 71° 03' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 107704
Place ID: 1028
rising to c. 1600m at N end of Rouen Mountains, N Alexander Island, was sighted by FAE, 1903-05, in January 1905, and named Massif Bayonne after the city in S France (Charcot, 1912, Pl. 1; Bongrain, 1914, vues 39 and 42 following p.60). Bayonne Mount (BA chart 3175, 9.x.1914). Mount Bayonne (BA, 1916, photograph facing p.409; BA chart 3196, 12.xi.1948; [in 68 56'S 70 58'W] APC, 1955, p.5; DOS 610 sheet W 68 70; [co-ordinates corrected] APC, 1977, p. 5; BAS 250P sheet SR 19-20/5 (Ext.), 1-DOS 1978). Bayon Fj. (HA chart, 1927). Bayonnefjellet (Aagaard, 1930, end map). The mountain was photographed from the air by BGLE in 1936-37. Montes Bayonne (Rymill and others, 1943, map facing p.272). Monte Bayone (Ihl C. and Ayala A., 1947, map facing p.64). Monte Bayonne (Chile. DNH chart LIII, 1947; Pierrou, 1970, p.193; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.42). Monte Boyone [sic] (Vila Labra, 1947, map p.203). Bayonne Berg (Knapp, 1958, p.568). The mountain was rephotographed from the air by RARE in 1947 and mapped from air photographs by FIDS in 1959 (Searle, 1963, end map). |
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| Mount Bayonne (USA) | 68° 56' 00.0" S | 70° 59' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 122296
Place ID: 1028
Mountain, 1,500 m, forming the N extremity of the Rouen Mountains in Alexander Island. First mapped by the FrAE, 1908-10, under Charcot, who named it for the French city. Resighted from the air by the BGLE in 1936. Remapped from air photos taken by the RARE, 1947-48, by Searle of the FIDS in 1960. |
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