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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Cairn Hill (GBR) | 63° 30' 00.0" S | 57° 05' 00.0" W | Hill |
Name ID: 108053
Place ID: 2195
rising to 475m near N end of Tabarin Peninsula, Trinity Peninsula, was surveyed by FIDS from "Hope Bay" in 1946 and so named from the cairn erected on the E of the two summits (APC, 1955, p.6; DOS 310 Hope Bay sheet, 1961). Cordón Don Bosco, so called after the religious order (Olsacher and others, 1956, p.86). Cerro Don Bosco (Argentina, MD, 1978, letter D). |
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Cairn Hill (USA) | 63° 30' 00.0" S | 57° 04' 00.0" W | Hill |
Name ID: 123206
Place ID: 2195
Hill with two summits, the higher 475 m, standing 2 mi E of Duse Bay and 1 mi SW of Mineral Hill on Tabarin Peninsula. First charted by the FIDS in 1946, who so named it because a cairn was erected on the eastern of the two summits. |
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Cairn, colina (ARG) | 63° 30' 00.0" S | 57° 05' 00.0" W | Hill |
Name ID: 100405 Place ID: 2195 | |||
Garrido, Cerro (CHL) | 63° 30' 00.0" S | 57° 04' 00.0" W | Hill |
Name ID: 134937
Place ID: 2195
Fue cartografiado por primera vez en 1946 por el FIDS, que le dio el nombre de Cairn Hill debido a que se eligió como señal un montón de piedras (cairn) al E de las dos cimas. El nombre actual corresponde al apellido del cabo 1º mecánico de aviación Exequiel Garrido Pino, Fuerza Aérea de Chile, quien participó en la componente aérea de la Expedición Antártica Chilena de 1946-1947, a bordo del transporte "Angamos" de la Armada de Chile. Cerro con dos cimas, de aproximadamente 460 metros de elevación, situado a unas 2 millas al E de la playa NE de bahía Duse, península Tabarín, en el extremo NE de la península de Tierra de O'Higgins. |
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Westwood Point (AUS) | 68° 37' 00.8" S | 77° 55' 10.9" E | Point |
Name ID: 2195
Place ID: 15927
A point on Mule Peninsula, Vestfold Hills, forming the southern entrance to Ellis Fjord. Parts of the feature are inundated by the sea. |
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