Coffin Top
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Coffin Top is a mountain with a flattened summit, 745 metre high, located 1.4 miles (2.3 km) east-northeast of Mount Fagan
Mount Fagan
Mount Fagan is a mountain located 1.4 nautical miles west-southwest of Coffin Top and 2.75 nautical miles west of Moltke Harbor, South Georgia. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1971 for Captain P.F. Fagan, RE, surveyor on the British Combined Services Expedition,...

 and 1.6 miles (2.6 km) northwest of Moltke Harbour, South Georgia. The feature was named "Sarg-Berg" (coffin mountain) by the German group of the International Polar Year Expedition, 1882–83. An English form of the name, Coffin Top, was recommended by UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee
UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory and the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands...

in 1954.
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