The name applied by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee ( UK-APC ) in 1971 refers to the oceanite lavas present in this area, which occur nowhere else in the South Sandwich Islands.
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When the term " oceanite " was apparently first proposed by Antoine Lacroix, he used the term to apply only to basalts with more than 50 % olivine content ( an extremely rare occurrence ).
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"' Mount Oceanite "'( ) is a conspicuous ice-covered mountain ( probably an extinct volcano ) rising to 915 m in the extreme southeast corner of Montagu Island, South Sandwich Islands.