Mount Dewey () is a mountain, high, standing southeast of
Mount Cheops
Mount Cheops () is a mountain, over high, standing south-southeast of Cape Garcia on the west coast of Graham Land. It was mapped by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from photos taken by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd in 1956–57, and named b ...
on the west coast of
Graham Land. It was charted by the
British Graham Land Expedition of 1934–37 under
John Rymill, and it was named by the
UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1959 for
Melvil Dewey
Melville Louis Kossuth "Melvil" Dewey (December 10, 1851 – December 26, 1931) was an influential American librarian and educator, inventor of the Dewey Decimal system of library classification, a founder of the Lake Placid Club, and a chief lib ...
, the American originator of the
Dewey Decimal Classification, from which the
Universal Decimal Classification is derived.
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References
Mountains of Graham Land
Graham Coast
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