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Mount Lombard (64°31′S 59°38′W / 64.517°S 59.633°W) is the highest peak dominating the mountain mass whose south extremity is Cape Sobral, Graham Land. Mapped from surveys by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) (1960–61). Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Alvin O. Lombard, American engineer of the Lombard Steam Log Hauler Co., Waterville, Maine, who designed some of the earliest successful over-snow tractors, the first application of knowledge of snow mechanics to trafficability, 1901-13.
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