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Name Latitude Longitude Feature Type
Sweeney Mountains (RUS) 75° 45' 00.0" S 67° 30' 00.0" W Mountain
Name ID: 120867 Place ID: 14327

Sweeney Mountains (GBR) 75° 10' 00.0" S 69° 35' 00.0" W Mountain
Name ID: 111486 Place ID: 14327

rising to 1705m N of Cape Zumberge, Orville Coast, and including from W to E Morgan Nunataks, Mount Smart, Mount Ballard, Mount Edward, Mount Jenkins, Potter Peak, Anderson Nunataks and Hagerty Peak, were seen from the air by RARE, 21 November 1947, and named Catherine Sweeney Mountains (AGS, map, 1948) or Sweeney Mountains ([in 75°45'S 67°40'W] Ronne, 1948b, map p.357; 1949, photograph p.228; USHO chart 6638, 1955; [co-ordinates corrected] USGS sketch map Ellsworth Land-Palmer Land, 1969; APC, 1975, p.5; BAS 500P sheet SS 17-20/SE, 1-DOS 1981), after Mrs Edward C. Sweeney of Washington, DC, a contributor to RARE. Montes Sweeney (Argentina. MM chart N-"P"-1, 1952; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.271). Sweeney-Ketten, Sweeney-Gebirge (Kosack, 1955a, p.229 and end map). Gory Suini (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). The mountains were surveyed from the ground on US Antarctic Peninsula Traverse, 1961-62, and photographed from the air by USN, 1965-67. Sweeny [sic] Mountains (Williams and others, 1972, map Fig.2, p.145). Montañas Sweeny [sic], in error (Chile. IHA, 1974, p.178). "Jamesway Camp", referring to a field camp on the S side of the mountains from the type of hut used (Thomson, 1980, map p.29).

Sweeney Mountains (USA) 75° 06' 00.0" S 69° 15' 00.0" W Mountain
Name ID: 132409 Place ID: 14327

A group of mountains of moderate height and about 40 mi extent, located 30 mi N of the Hauberg Mountains in eastern Ellsworth Land. Discovered by the RARE, 1947-48, under Ronne, who named these mountains for Mrs. Edward C. Sweeney, a contributor to the expedition.

Sweeney, montes (ARG) 75° 10' 00.0" S 69° 35' 00.0" W Mountain
Name ID: 102264 Place ID: 14327

Sweeney, Montes (CHL) 75° 45' 00.0" S 67° 40' 00.0" W Mountain
Name ID: 106335 Place ID: 14327

Descubiertos por el RARE, entre los años 1947-1948, bajo la dirección del capitán de fragata Finne Ronne, quien los denominó por la Sra. Catherine Sweeney, esposa de Edward C. Sweeney, contribuyente de la Expedición.

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