Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Kvars Promontory (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Kvars Promontory (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Promontory
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 rocky promontory on the southern shore of Edward VIII Gulf. First visited by an ANARE sledging party led by Robert G. Dovers in 1954.
Mapped from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Kvarsnes by Norwegian cartographers.
No images of this place could be found.
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