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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| Lacroix, monte (ARG) | 65° 03' 00.0" S | 63° 59' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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| Lacroix, Monte (CHL) | 65° 03' 00.0" S | 63° 59' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 105787
Place ID: 7993
Fue cartografiado primero por la Expedición Antártica Francesa de los años 1903-1905, al mando del Dr. Jean B. Charcot, quien la denominó así por Alfred Lacroix, prominente minerologista y geólogo francés. Monte prominente de laderas verticales abruptadas de piedra color rojizo y de cima redondeada de 635 metros de altura, en el extremo NE de isla Booth al W de la costa de la península Tierra de O'Higgins. |
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| Mount Lacroix (GBR) | 65° 03' 00.0" S | 63° 58' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 109686
Place ID: 7993
forming NE peninsula of Booth Island, Graham Coast, and rising to 635m at Cléry Peak (q.v.), was mapped by FAE, 1903-05, and named Mont Lacroix after François-Antoine-Alfred Lacroix (1863-1948), French mineralogist and geologist; member of the Commission des Travaux Scientifiques for FAE, 1903-05 and 1908-10, who signed the instructions for the latter expedition (Charcot, 1906b, p.41, 473; 1908, map p.36; BA, 1916, p.407). Mont Rouillé [=rusty mountain], so called descriptively by sailors in the expedition ship Français (Gourdon, 1908, p.21). Massif Lacroix (Matha and Rey, 1911, p.65). Mount Lecroix [sic] (BA, 1930, p.85). Mount Lecroix [sic] Peninsula (USHO, 1943, p.136). Monte Lecroix [sic] (Argentina. MM chart 106, 1949). Mount Lacroix (APC, 1955, p.13; BA chart 3572, 25.vii.1958). The mountain was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57. Monte Lacroix (Argentina. MM, 1960b, p.146; Pierrou, 1970, p.461). |
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| Mount Lacroix (USA) | 65° 03' 00.0" S | 63° 58' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 127698
Place ID: 7993
Prominent mountain with red vertical cliffs and a rounded summit, 640 m, surmounting the NE end of Booth Island, in the Wilhelm Archipelago. First charted by the FrAE, 1903-05, under Charcot and named by him after Alfred Lacroix (1863-1948) French mineralogist and geologist; member of the scientific commission for FrAe, 1903-05 and 1908-10. |
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