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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| Taylor Dome (AUS) | 77° 40' 00.1" S | 157° 40' 00.1" E | Dome |
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Name ID: 395
Place ID: 14455
An elliptical ice dome about 70 km long ESE-WNW and 25 km wide, rising to 2400 m centered about 46 km WNW of Mount Crean, Lashly Mountains, Victoria Land. The feature was delineated by the SPRI-NSF-TUD airborne radio echo sounding program, 1967-79. The dome is one of the local sources of ice to the Taylor Glacier. |
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| Taylor Dome (NZL) | 77° 50' 01.4" S | 159° 02' 49.0" E | Dome |
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Name ID: 140113
Place ID: 14455
An elliptical ice dome up to 80km long east-southeast to west-northwest and 30km wide, rising to 2400m, northwest of Mount Crean, Lashly Mountains, Victoria Land. |
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| Taylor Dome (USA) | 77° 40' 00.0" S | 157° 40' 00.0" E | Dome |
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Name ID: 132499
Place ID: 14455
An elliptical ice dome, 43 mi long ESE-WNW and 16 mi wide, rising to 2,400 m, centered c. 29 mi WNW of Mount Crean, Lashly Mountains, Victoria Land. The feature was delineated by the SPRI-NSF-TUD airborne radio echo sounding program, 1967-79. The name was first used by David J. Drewry of SPRI in 1980. The dome is one of the local sources of ice to the Taylor Glacier, from which it is named. Approved by US-ACAN in 1994. |
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