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
Mount Ostenso (RUS) 78° 18' 00.0" S 86° 11' 00.0" W Mountain
Name ID: 119795 Place ID: 10718

Mount Ostenso (USA) 78° 18' 00.0" S 86° 11' 00.0" W Mountain
Name ID: 129729 Place ID: 10718

A mountain (4,180 m) 2 mi S of Mount Giovinetto in the main ridge of the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains. First mapped by the Marie Byrd Land Traverse Party (1957-58) led by C.R. Bentley, and named for Ned A. Ostenso, traverse seismologist at Byrd Station (1957) and a member of the party.

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