Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| Mount Tchaikovsky (RUS) | 71° 14' 00.0" S | 73° 31' 00.0" W | Mountain |
| Name ID: 120915 Place ID: 14474 | |||
| Mount Tchaikovsky (GBR) | 71° 24' 00.0" S | 73° 15' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 111520
Place ID: 14474
rising to c. 300 m between Brahms Inlet and Mendelssohn Inlet, Beethoven Peninsula, SW Alexander Island, was photographed from the air by RARE in 1947 and mapped from air photographs by FIDS in 1959; in association with the names of other composers in this area, named after Petr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky (1840-93), Russian composer ([in 71°14'S 73°31'W] APC, 1961, p.3; DOS 710 sheet 14, 1963; Searle, 1963, end map; [co-ordinates corrected from US LANDSAT imagery of January 1973] BAS 250P sheet SR 17-18/15, 16, 1-DOS 1974; APC, 1977, p.32). Mount Tchaikousky [sic] (USHO chart 16384-5, 1961). |
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| Mount Tchaikovsky (USA) | 71° 23' 00.0" S | 73° 15' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 132517
Place ID: 14474
Snow-covered mountain, c. 600 m, with scarps on the S and E sides, located in the N part of Derocher Peninsula, Alexander Island. A number of mountains in this vicinity first appear on maps by the RARE, 1947-48. This mountain, apparently one of these, was mapped from RARE air photos by Searle of the FIDS in 1960. Named by UK-APC after Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky (1840-93), Russian composer. |
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