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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| Canisteo Peninsula (RUS) | 73° 40' 00.0" S | 101° 30' 00.0" W | Peninsula |
| Name ID: 117365 Place ID: 2272 | |||
| Canisteo Peninsula (USA) | 73° 48' 00.0" S | 102° 20' 00.0" W | Peninsula |
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Name ID: 123268
Place ID: 2272
An ice-covered peninsula, about 30 mi long and 20 mi wide, which projects between Ferrero and Cranton Bays into the E extremity of Amundsen Sea. Delineated from air photos taken by USN Operation HighJump in December 1946. Named by US-ACAN for the USS Canisteo, a tanker with the eastern task group of this expedition. |
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| O'Leary Ridges (AUS) | 70° 58' 14.5" S | 67° 20' 28.7" E | Ridge |
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Name ID: 2272
Place ID: 10482
Three, partly snow-covered ridges about 43 km south-east of Mount Bunt in the Aramis Range, Prince Charles Mountains. The ridges have a steep rock face on the south-west side. Plotted from ANARE air photographs taken in 1960. Named after R.A. O''Leary, Officer-in-Charge at Wilkes in 1964. |
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