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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Mount McKeown (RUS) | 77° 56' 00.0" S | 85° 31' 00.0" W | Mountain |
Name ID: 119321 Place ID: 9301 | |||
Mount McKeown (USA) | 77° 56' 00.0" S | 85° 31' 00.0" W | Mountain |
Name ID: 128688
Place ID: 9301
A mountain (1,880 m) on the N side of Embree Glacier, 3 mi NE of Mount Schmid, in the N portion of the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains. First mapped by USGS from surveys and USN air photos, 1957-59. Named by US-ACAN for First Lt. Donald F. McKeown, USAF, who participated in establishing the South Pole Station in the 1956-57 season. |
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