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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| Campbell, monte (ARG) | 62° 57' 00.0" S | 60° 33' 00.0" W | Mountain |
| Name ID: 100418 Place ID: 11461 | |||
| Mount Pond (RUS) | 62° 57' 00.0" S | 60° 33' 00.0" W | Mountain |
| Name ID: 120028 Place ID: 11461 | |||
| Mount Pond (GBR) | 62° 57' 00.0" S | 60° 33' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 110675
Place ID: 11461
highest point (540m) on Deception Island, SE of Pendulum Cove, was roughly mapped by Foster in January 1829 and named after John Pond (1767-1836), English Astronomer Royal, 1811-35 ([referring to lower summit to NNW] Kendall, chart, 1829b; 1831, map facing p.64; [referring to present feature] BA chart 3205, 1.vi.1901; APC, 1955, p.17; BA chart 3202, 30.ix.1955; DOS 310 Deception Island sheet, 1960); also called Iceberg Hill "from the circumstance of it being capped with ice in a singular manner, so as to give it the resemblance of a huge twelfth-cake", this name not applying to a feature N of Pendulum Cove as erroneously indicated (Webster, 1834, Vol.1, p.146; BA, 1930, p.67). Mont Pound [sic] (d'Urville, 1847, Pl.1). Mont Pond (Gourdon, [1910], p.131). Mount Pound [sic] (Charcot, [1911b], p.274). Monte Pond, referring to the lower summit to NNW (Argentina. MM chart 100, 1944; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.229). Monte Campbell, so called by AAE after Capt. (F) Campbell (d.1961), of the Argentine Navy, who made the first photogrammetric air survey of the island in 1948 (Argentina. MM chart 100, 1953; Pierrou, 1970, p.233). Monte Estanque [translation of the English proper name], referring to the lower summit to NNW (Argentina. MM chart 100, 1953; Pierrou, 1970, p.348). The mountain was surveyed by FIDS, 1953-54. Cerro Pond (Cordini, 1955, p.169). Mount Estanque (Casertano, 1964, p.37). |
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| Mount Pond (USA) | 62° 57' 00.0" S | 60° 33' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 130252
Place ID: 11461
Peak, 550 m, standing 1.5 mi ESE of Pendulum Cove, on Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands. The name appears on a 1829 chart based upon survey work by the British expedition under Foster, 1828-31. Probably named for John Pond, noted English astronomer and director of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich at that time. |
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| Pond, monte (ARG) | 62° 57' 00.0" S | 60° 33' 00.0" W | Mountain |
| Name ID: 101886 Place ID: 11461 | |||
| Pond, Monte (CHL) | 62° 56' 00.0" S | 60° 33' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 106112
Place ID: 11461
El nombre aparece en una carta de 1829 basada en trabajos de la Expedición Británica del capitán Henry Foster 1828-1831. Probablemente, llamado así por John Pond, director del Observatorio Real de Greenwich en esa época. Monte situado en el lado oriental de la herradura que forma isla Decepción, a 8 cables al E de caleta Péndulo. Con 511 metros de altura, es la cumbre dominante de la isla. |
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