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
Petvar Heights (BGR) 78° 46' 30.0" S 84° 20' 20.0" W
Name ID: 137246 Place ID: 18954

The heights rising to 2400 m (Mount Mullen) in SE Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains. The feature occupies an oval shaped area with a diameter of 21 km, separated from the rest of Sentinel Range by Wessbecher Glacier to the SW, Kasilag Pass to the W, and Kornicker Glacier to the NW and N. US mapping in 1988. Named after the settlement of Petvar in Southern Bulgaria.

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