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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| Brown Peaks (USA) | 85° 35' 00.0" S | 158° 05' 00.0" W | Peak |
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Name ID: 122990
Place ID: 1914
A series of low peaks surmounting a ridge 4 mi long, standing 7 mi E of Robinson Bluff at the E side of Amundsen Glacier. First roughly mapped from ground surveys and air photos by the ByrdAE, 1928-30. Named by US-ACAN for Kenneth R. Brown, biologist with the McMurdo Station winter party of 1964. |
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| Hughes Passage (AUS) | 66° 27' 00.0" S | 97° 13' 59.9" E | Passage |
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Name ID: 1914
Place ID: 6725
The area of the Shackleton Ice Shelf which separates the mainland from Henderson Island, Queen Mary Land. Named by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914 for WM Hughes, Australian Prime Minister, 1915-1923. |
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