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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Ader, monte (ARG) | 64° 10' 00.0" S | 60° 31' 00.0" W | Mountain |
Name ID: 134014
Place ID: 79
Sobre costa Palmer. Bautizado en honor de Clement Ader (1841-1925), pionero aeronáutico francés, considerado el primer hombre en dejar tierra en un aparato aéreo primitivo de un solo motor. SHN carta H-700. |
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Barrier Bay (AUS) | 67° 45' 00.0" S | 81° 10' 00.1" E | Bay |
Name ID: 79
Place ID: 938
An open bay in the eastern part of Prydz Bay just west of the West Ice Shelf. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Barriervika (The Barrier Bay). |
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Mount Ader (GBR) | 64° 11' 00.0" S | 60° 31' 00.0" W | Mountain |
Name ID: 107449
Place ID: 79
rising to c. 1600m on S side of Wright Ice Piedmont, Davis Coast, was photographed from the air by FIDASE in 1956-57; in association with the names of pioneers of aviation grouped in this area, named after Cl'ment Ader (1841-1925), French pioneer aeronaut, who was probably the first man to leave the ground in a heavier-than-air machine solely as the result of an engine contained in it, 9 October 1890 (APC, 1960, p.2; BAS 250 sheet SQ 19-20/4, 1-DOS, 1974). |
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Mount Ader (USA) | 64° 10' 00.0" S | 60° 29' 00.0" W | Mountain |
Name ID: 121596
Place ID: 79
Mountain along the N side of Breguet Glacier and just SE of Mount Cornu, in northern Graham Land. Shown on an Argentine government chart in 1957. Named by the UK-APC in 1960 for Clement Ader (1841-1925), French pioneer aeronaut, probably the first man to leave the ground in a heavier-than-air machine solely as the result of an engine contained in it, on Oct. 9, 1890. |
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