Mount Dewar

Mount Dewar

Mount Dewar (80°32′S 21°11′W / 80.533°S 21.183°W / -80.533; -21.183) is a mountain rising to about 1,600 m to the southwest of Aronson Corner in the Pioneers Escarpment, Shackleton Range. Photographed from the air by the U.S. Navy, 1967. Surveyed by British Antarctic Survey (BAS), 1968-71. In association with the names of pioneers of polar life and travel grouped in this area, named in 1971 by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after Sir James Dewar (1842–1923), Scottish chemist and physicist who invented the thermos flask, about 1892.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Mount Dewar" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).