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
Beckett Nunatak (NZL) 76° 02' 00.0" S 160° 11' 00.0" E Nunatak
Name ID: 112762 Place ID: 1081

Flatish bare rock nunatak, 1920m, lying 10 miles west of Mt Armytage. Named by the USACAN for W T Beckett, Utilities man at McMurdo Station, 1963.

Beckett Nunatak (USA) 76° 02' 00.0" S 160° 11' 00.0" E Nunatak
Name ID: 122343 Place ID: 1081

A flattish, mostly bare rock nunatak lying 9 mi W of Mount Armytage and S of Harbord Glacier in Victoria Land. Mapped by USGS from ground surveys and Navy air photos. Named by US-ACAN in 1964 for W.T. Beckett, utilities man at McMurdo Station, 1963.

Einstoding Islands (AUS) 67° 28' 28.7" S 61° 39' 55.8" E Island
Name ID: 1081 Place ID: 4126

A group of three small islands, 6 km north of the Stanton Group off Mac.Robertson Land. Probably first seen by BANZARE (1930-31) under Sir Douglas Mawson.

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