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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| Mount Spivey (GBR) | 69° 32' 00.0" S | 69° 53' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 111338
Place ID: 13845
rising to c. 2100m in Douglas Range (q.v.), N Alexander Island, was photographed from the air by BGLE, 1 February 1937, and by RARE in 1947; surveyed from the ground on its E side by FIDS from "Stonington Island" in 1948 and named after Major Robert Edward Spivey ( 1921-1994), of the Parachute Regiment, FIDS general assistant, "Stonington Island", 1948-50, who took part in the sledge journey to George VI Sound, September-December 1949; Magistrate, South Georgia, 1954-57 (APC, 1955, p.20; USHO chart 6638, 1955; DOS 610 sheet W 69 68, 1960); mapped from air photographs by FIDS in 1959. Gora Spayvi (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). |
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| Mount Spivey (USA) | 69° 31' 00.0" S | 69° 50' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 132025
Place ID: 13845
Flat-topped, mainly ice-covered mountain, 2,135 m, standing on the W side of Toynbee Glacier and 9 mi S of Mount Nicholas, in the N part of the Douglas Range of Alexander Island. First photographed from the air in 1937 by the BGLE under Rymill. Surveyed from the ground in 1948 by the FIDS and named for Robert E. Spivey, general assistant at Stonington Island, who took part in the FIDS sledge journey to George VI Sound in 1949. |
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