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Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
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but has been limited to the prominent mountains in the south, while the principal group of mountains farther north was subsequently named
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Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 62. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1980.
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in the background; Solvay Mountains are on the left, far side of the island.
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Scale 1:250000 topographic map. British Antarctic Survey, 2008.
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Location of Brabant Island in the Antarctic Peninsula region.
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Cook Summit
Brabant Island
Palmer Archipelago
Belgian Antarctic Expedition
Adrien de Gerlache
Ernest Solvay
island
Stribog Mountains
Aluzore Gap
Mount Aciar
64°24′S 62°33′W / 64.400°S 62.550°W / -64.400; -62.550 (Mount Aciar)
Rush Glacier
Jenner Glacier
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
British Antarctic Territory.
Brabant Island to Argentine Islands.
"A Trip around a name - The legacy of Ernest Solvay"
the original
"Mount Aciar"
"Mount Aciar, Antarctica"

Anvers Island
Antarctic Peninsula
public domain material
"Solvay Mountains"
Geographic Names Information System
United States Geological Survey
Edit this at Wikidata
64°25′S 62°32′W / 64.417°S 62.533°W / -64.417; -62.533

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