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 Young (NZL) | 84° 27' 00.0" S | 179° 48' 00.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 114776
Place ID: 16387
A peak at the north end of a spur on the east side of the Ramsey Glacier, rising to about 790 metres. Discovered and photographed by US Operation Highjump 1946/47 on the flights of 16 February 1947 and named by the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for H Robert Young of New Zealand, mechanic on the Byrd AE, 1928-30 and 1933-35. |
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| Mount Young (USA) | 84° 27' 00.0" S | 179° 48' 00.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 133940
Place ID: 16387
A small peak, 770 m, at the N end of a spur on the E side of Ramsey Glacier, just S of the Ross Ice Shelf. Discovered and photographed by USN Operation HighJump on the flights of Feb. 16, 1947, and named by US-ACAN after Henry Richard Young of New Zealand, who was a mechanic on the ByrdAE, 1928-30 and 1933-35. |
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