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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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| Mount Boyd (NZL) | 84° 48' 00.0" S | 179° 24' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 112858
Place ID: 1715
A pyramidal-shaped mountain rising to an elevation of about 2800m in the northern portion of Anderson Heights, in the Bush Mountains of the Queen Maud Range. Discovered and photographed by the USASE, 1939-41, on Flight C of 29 February - 1 March 1940, and surveyed by A P Crary in 1957-58. Named by him for Walter Boyd Jr, a glaciologist with the Ross Ice Shelf Traverse Party in 1957-58. |
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| Mount Boyd (USA) | 84° 48' 00.0" S | 179° 24' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 122830
Place ID: 1715
A pyramidal mountain (2,960 m) standing 3 mi W of Mount Bennett, in the Bush Mountains. Discovered and photographed by the USAS, 1939-41. Surveyed by A.P. Crary, leader of the U.S. Ross Ice Shelf Traverse Party (1957-58), and named by him for Walter Boyd, Jr., glaciologist with the party. |
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| Swartz Nunataks (AUS) | 78° 39' 00.0" S | 160° 00' 00.0" E | Nunatak |
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Name ID: 1715
Place ID: 14324
Two prominent nunataks, about 1,563 m high, midway between the northern part of the Worcester Range (Ross Dependency) and Tate Peak. Plotted from US Navy air photographs. Named by USACAN after Lieut. P.K. Swartz, USN, officer-in-charge at the South Pole Station in 1961. |
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