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 Range (AUS) | 68° 08' 13.7" S | 62° 23' 57.8" E | Range |
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Name ID: 2248
Place ID: 13704
A group of seven peaks about 4 km south of Mt. Twintop in Mac.Robertson Land. Two of the peaks were maped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936) and called Sortindane (The South Mountain Peaks). Named for D A Brown, radio operator at Mawson in 1958. The location is for the middle of the range where the altitdue is 1467 metres with the highest point in the range at Gordon Peak with an altitdue of 1484 metres. |
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| Campbell Head (AUS) | 67° 25' 08.0" S | 60° 40' 49.8" E | Head |
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Name ID: 638
Place ID: 2248
A bold headland on the western side of Oom Bay, Mac.Robertson Land. |
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| Campbell Head (USA) | 67° 25' 00.0" S | 60° 40' 00.0" E | Head |
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Name ID: 123249
Place ID: 2248
A bold headland on the W side of Oom Bay. Discovered in February 1931 by the BANZARE under Mawson, who named it for Flight Lt. Stuart Campbell, RAAF, pilot with the expedition. |
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