Mount Mair

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Mount Mair
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height 780  m
location South Georgia
Coordinates 54 ° 49 '43 "  S , 36 ° 2' 14"  W Coordinates: 54 ° 49 '43 "  S , 36 ° 2' 14"  W
Mount Mair (South Georgia)
Mount Mair

Mount Mair is a 780  m high mountain near the southeastern end of South Georgia . It looms between Brandt Cove and Larsen Harbor on Drygalski Fjord .

The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the mountain in 1988. It was named after Bruce Findley Mair (* 1952), geologist of the British Antarctic Survey , who carried out extensive surveys in this area from 1974 to 1975 and from 1976 to 1977 to create a geological map had carried out.

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