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New Zealand mountain named in honour of Yale astronomer

Acclaimed by her peers in the United States as "possibly the greatest woman scientist of the 20th century" and known in her native New Zealand as a "world leader in modern cosmology and one of the most creative and significant theoreticians in modern astronomy," the late Yale astronomer Beatrice Tinsley has certainly earned a place in the annals of history.
Now she's earned a place in the World Atlas as well.
The New Zealand Geographic Board has named a mountain after Tinsley, a Yale professor of astronomy from 1975 until her death in 1981. The Kepler Mountains  - named after 17th-century German astronomer Johannes Kepler - now includes Mount Tinsley near Fiordland, southern New Zealand.
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Kepler Mountains Helicopter Flight Te Anau

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Visiting the Mountains named after Astronomers William Haward Pickeing
and Beatrice Hill-Tinsley in the spectacular Mountains between Lakes Manapouri and Te Anau in New Zealands Fiordland National Park with Aaron Nicholson, Edwin Nicholson, Rod Hall-Jones and Barry Harcourt of the Southland Times.


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A Manapouri historian has finally achieved his goal of naming two Fiordland mountains for famous New Zealand astronomers after a two-year wait. Aaron Nicholson put the names for two mountains within the Kepler Mountains forward to the New Zealand Geographic Board in 2008 to recognise the late Sir William Pickering and Beatrice Tinsley.
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Mountains named after scientists

Two Fiordland mountains have finally been named after prompting of the New Zealand Geographic Board by a Manapouri man.
The mountains, which lie within the Kepler Mountains group west of Te Anau, have been named Mt Pickering and Mt Tinsley after famous New Zealand scientists William Pickering and Beatrice Tinsley.
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