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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| Seward Mountains (RUS) | 72° 25' 00.0" S | 66° 15' 00.0" W | Mountain |
| Name ID: 120510 Place ID: 13057 | |||
| Seward Mountains (GBR) | 72° 31' 00.0" S | 66° 04' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 111124
Place ID: 13057
rising to c. 1350m SE of Buttress Nunataks, George VI Sound, were roughly surveyed by BGLE in October 1936 and named after Sir Albert Charles Seward (1863-1941), British palaeobotanist; Professor of Botany, 1906-36, and Vice-Chancellor, 1924-26, Cambridge University; first Chairman, Committee of Management, SPRI; member of BGLE Advisory Committee (Rymill, 1938b; BA chart 3175 1.iii.1940; Stephenson, 1940, map facing p.232; APC, 1955, p.19; [in 72°26'S 66°15'W] DCS 601 sheet W 72 66, 1956; [co-ordinates corrected] APC, 1977, p.29; USGS sketch map Palmer Land (North Part), 1979). Montes Seward (Rymill and others, 1943, map facing p.272). Seward Nunataks (USAF chart 1808, 1948). Monte Seward (Argentina. MM chart 110, 1949). Seward Bergen, Monti Seward (Knapp, 1958, p.585 and Tav. 9). Gori Sivard (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). Gory Sivard (Soviet Union. AA, 1966, Pl. 24). The mountains were photographed from the air by USN, 1966-69, and resurveyed from the ground by BAS from "Fossil Bluff", 1974-75. |
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| Seward Mountains (USA) | 72° 26' 00.0" S | 66° 15' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 131446
Place ID: 13057
Isolated mountains, 1,525 m, standing 10 mi ESE of Buttress Nunataks and a like distance E of George VI Sound on the W coast of Palmer Land. Discovered in 1936 by the BGLE under Rymill. Named by Rymill for Sir Albert Charles Seward, professor of botany at Cambridge, 1906-36. |
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| Seward, montes (ARG) | 72° 31' 00.0" S | 66° 04' 00.0" W | Mountain |
| Name ID: 102156 Place ID: 13057 | |||
| Seward, Montes (CHL) | 72° 26' 00.0" S | 66° 15' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 135114
Place ID: 13057
Descubiertas en 1936 por la BGLE al mando de John Rymill, quien le dio el nombre por el apellido de Sir Albert Charles Seward, profesor de botánica en Cambridge, 1906-1936. Montes aislados de unos 1.500 metros de elevación, que se ubican a aproximadamente 20 millas al S del glaciar Goodenough, en la costa SW de la península de Tierra de O'Higgins. |
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