Mount Nivea ( 60°35′S 45°29′W / 60.583°S 45.483°W) is a conspicuous, snow-topped, 1,265 m high mountain at the head of Sunshine Glacier on Coronation Island, in the South Orkney Islands. A number of rock towers lie on the northwest side. It was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1948–49, and named by them for the snow petrel ( Pagodroma nivea) which breeds in this area.
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Mount Nivea ( 60°35′S 45°29′W / 60.583°S 45.483°W) is a conspicuous, snow-topped, 1,265 m high mountain at the head of Sunshine Glacier on Coronation Island, in the South Orkney Islands. A number of rock towers lie on the northwest side. It was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1948–49, and named by them for the snow petrel ( Pagodroma nivea) which breeds in this area.
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