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)
Low Tongue (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Low Tongue (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Tongue
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 tongue of rock about 12 m high projecting from the continental ice edge for about 165 m situated about 44 km west of Mawson. Plotted by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Lagtangen (Low Tongue). First visited by ANARE western parties in 1954-55.
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