Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Branson Nunatak (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Branson Nunatak (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Nunatak
This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A prominent peak between Price Nunatak and the main massif of the South Masson Range in Mac.Robertson Land. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Horntind (Mountain Peak Mountain Peak).
Renamed after J. Branson, geophysicist at Mawson in 1962, who carried our geological investigations there.
No images of this place could be found.
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