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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| Borchgrevinkisen (USA) | 72° 10' 00.0" S | 21° 30' 00.0" E | |
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Name ID: 122732
Place ID: 1600
Glacier flowing northward to the W of Taggen Nunatak, at the W end of the Sor Rondane Mountains. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers in 1957 from air photos taken by USN Operation HighJump, 1946-47, and named for Carsten E. Borchgrevink, Norwegian leader of the BrAE, 1898-1900. |
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| Carsten Borchgrevinkisen (NOR) | 71° 40' 00.0" S | 18° 00' 00.0" E | |
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Name ID: 114968
Place ID: 1600
Large icecapped area between Fimbulheimen and Sør-Rondane. After Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink, 1864-1934, Norwegian south-pole explorer, emigrated to Australia. Leader of the first expedition that spendt the winter in Antarctica. |
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| Mount Scherger (AUS) | 73° 11' 00.0" S | 62° 50' 00.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 1600
Place ID: 12810
A peak in the southern Prince Charles Mountains, just west of Mount McCauley. First seen by Flying Officer J. Seaton, RAAF, during a photographic flight in November, 1956. Mapped by M. Fisher, surveyor at Mawson in 1957.Named after Air Marshal Sir Frederick Scherger, Chief of Air Staff in Australia, 1957-61. |
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