- Dartmouth Peak
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Dartmouth Peak (80°12′S 157°41′E / 80.2°S 157.683°E) is a peak (3320 m) standing 2.8 nautical miles (5 km) east-northeast of Mount McClintock in the central part of Britannia Range.[1] Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) in association with HMS Britannia (Britannia Range, q.v.) after Dartmouth, A seaport of Devonshire, England, on the west bank of the River Dart estuary. From 1863 until 1905, British naval cadets (including some officers of R.F. Scott's Discovery expedition, 1901–04) received Royal Navy officer training in HMS Britannia, then berthed at Dartmouth.
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