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| McLeod Hill (GBR) | 68° 05' 00.0" S | 66° 29' 00.0" W | Hill |
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Name ID: 110084
Place ID: 9327
rising to 1790m at head of Northeast Glacier, Fallières Coast, was roughly surveyed by BGLE in 1936 (Rymill, 1938a, map facing p.432); resurveyed by FIDS from "Stonington Island" in 1946 and named after Kenneth Alexander McLeod (b. 1923), FIDS general assisant, "Port Lockroy", 1945-46; meteorological observer, Stonington Island", 1946-47, who in July-December 1947, with a member of RARE, occupied a meteorological station on the plateau at an altitude of 1700m, E of the hill (APC, 1955, p.14; DCS 601 sheet 68 66, 1955). Glacier Dome, The Dome, as rejected names (USBGN, 1956, p.209). |
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| McLeod Hill (USA) | 68° 05' 00.0" S | 66° 30' 00.0" W | Hill |
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Name ID: 128712
Place ID: 9327
Rounded, ice-covered hill, 1,790 m, which forms a prominent landmark 1 mi E of the head of Northeast Glacier in Graham Land. First roughly surveyed in 1936 by the BGLE, and resurveyed by the USAS, 1939-41. It was resurveyed in 1946 by the FIDS and named for Kenneth A. McLeod, FIDS meteorological observer who, during July-December 1947, occupied with a member of the RARE the plateau meteorological station 1 mi E of this hill. |
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