UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee

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The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) and the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI). Such names are formally approved by the Commissioners of the BAT and SGSSI respectively and published in the BAT Gazetteer and the SGSSI Gazetteer maintained by the Committee. The BAT names are also published in the international Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica maintained by SCAR.

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The Committee may also consider proposals for new place names for geographical features in areas of Antarctica outside BAT and SGSSI, which are referred to other Antarctic place-naming authorities or decided by the Committee itself if situated in the unclaimed sector of Antarctica. [1]

Names attributed by the committee

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  45. "Gazella Peak". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior . Retrieved 2012-04-19.
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  58. "Haverly Peak". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior . Retrieved 2012-05-31.
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