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)
SCAR Gazetteer Information: Each place can have one or more entries in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer, dependant on its origin. By viewing an individual entry, you may see multiple references to the same place. SCAR uses a more general feature type coding, so each place will, in general, have multiple feature types.
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| Mount Noel (GBR) | 69° 55' 00.0" S | 67° 55' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 110371
Place ID: 10331
one of the Traverse Mountains (q.v.), George VI Sound, rising to c. 1600m, following surveys by BAS from "Stonington Island", 1970-73, was named after John Fraser Noel (1942-66), BAS Diesel mechanic, "Stonington Island", 1965-66, who lost his life while sledging with T.J. Allan (Mount Allan, q.v.) near Tragic Corner, off Marguerite Bay, May 1966 (SPRI, 1967, p.805) (BAS 250P sheet SR 19-20/6, 1-DOS 1978; APC, 1980, p.4). |
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| Mount Noel (USA) | 69° 55' 00.0" S | 67° 55' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 129452
Place ID: 10331
A large ice-capped mountain (1,600 m) in the Traverse Mountains, isolated by wide snow passes from McHugo Peak and Mount Allan to the N and S of it, on the Rymill Coast, Palmer Land. Named by the UK-APC after John Fraser Noel (1942-66), BAS diesel mechanic, Stonington Island, 1965-66, who lost his life while sledging with T.J. Allan near Tragic Corner, Fallieres Coast, in May 1966. |
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