Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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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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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| Walker Peak (GBR) | 82° 38' 00.0" S | 53° 13' 00.0" W | Peak |
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Name ID: 111810
Place ID: 15680
rising to 1495 m at SW end of Dufek Massif (q.v.), Pensacola Mountains, was photographed from the air by USN in 1964 and surveyed from the ground on USGS Pensacola Mountains Project, 1965-66; named after Paul T. Walker (1934-59), USARP glaciologist, "Ellsworth Station", winter 1957, and a member of the first field party to visit Dufek Massif in December 1957; glaciologist with the Arctic Institute of North America expedition to Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada, in summer 1959, when he was taken by an illness that later proved fatal (USGS sheet SU 21-25/9, 1969; APC, 1974, p.6). |
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| Walker Peak (USA) | 82° 38' 00.0" S | 53° 13' 00.0" W | Peak |
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Name ID: 133386
Place ID: 15680
A sharp peak, 1,495 m, marking the SW extremity of Dufek Massif, Pensacola Mountains. Mapped by USGS from surveys and USN air photos, 1956-66. Named by US-ACAN for Paul T. Walker, glaciologist at Ellsworth Station, a member of the first party to visit Dufek Massif, in December 1957. |
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