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Name Latitude Longitude Feature Type
Mount Owen (GBR) 74° 25' 00.0" S 62° 30' 00.0" W Mountain
Name ID: 110468 Place ID: 10787

rising to 1135m on S side of Johnston Glacier, near head of Nantucket Inlet, Lassiter Coast, was photographed from the air by USAS, 30 December 1940, as one of "several isolated mountains" (USHO, 1943, p.277), and further photographed from the air by RARE, 21 November, 1947, when it was found to lie further N than previously reported (Ronne, 1948b, Fig.15, p.371); surveyed from the ground by FIDS-RARE from "Stonington Island" in December 1947; named Mount Arthur Owen ([incorrectly shown at head of Gardner Inlet in c. 74°30'S] AGS map, 1948) or Mount Owen (Ronne, 1948b, map p.357; BA chart 3175, 12.xi.1954; APC, 1955, p.16; DOS 601 sheet W 74 62, 1958; USGS sketch map Ellsworth Land-Palmer Land, 1969; BAS 500P sheet SS 17-20/SE, 1-DOS 1981), after Arthur Owen, boy scout with RARE and dog-driver with the FIDS-RARE sledge party, October 1947-January 1948. Monte Owen (Argentina. MM chart 121, 1957). Gora Ouen (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). The mountain was rephotographed from the air by USN, 1965-67, and mapped from air photographs by USGS.

Mount Owen (USA) 74° 25' 00.0" S 62° 30' 00.0" W Mountain
Name ID: 129765 Place ID: 10787

Mountain, 1,105 m, standing 2 mi NW of Kelsey Cliff at the S side of Johnston Glacier, on the E coast of Palmer Land. This mountain was photographed from the air in December 1940 by the USAS, and in 1947 by the RARE under Ronne, who in conjunction with the FIDS charted it from the ground. Named by Ronne for Arthur Owen, trail man with the RARE.

Owen, monte (ARG) 74° 25' 00.0" S 62° 30' 00.0" W Mountain
Name ID: 101756 Place ID: 10787

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