Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Changcheng Yan (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Changcheng Yan (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Rock
This name originates from China. It is part of the China Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
In the central of the northernmost of the Fildes Peninsula, five or six hundred meters away from the Collins Icecap, there is a wall-liked rock growing up a few hundred meters tall. Entire rock is a block structure of horizontal layers which looks like a section of the piled stones of the ruin of Great Wall. Its highest point is 96 meters above sea level. It was named by mapping members E Dongchen and Lv Chuncao January 1986 when they were transferring the paint aerial photos in the field work.
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