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 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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