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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| Cowie Nunatak (NZL) | 77° 08' 00.0" S | 160° 21' 00.0" E | Nunatak |
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Name ID: 113065
Place ID: 16819
A bold bluff-type nunatak (1782 m) with a cliffed E face, located 5 mi W of Detour Nunatak in the upper part of Mackay Glacier, Victoria Land. Named after James W. Cowie who was first employed by NZ's Antarctic Division in 1974/75 season as a field leader and who most recently was (is) the Project Manager of the international Cape Roberts drilling project in McMurdo Sound. |
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| Cowie Nunatak (USA) | 77° 08' 00.0" S | 160° 21' 00.0" E | Nunatak |
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Name ID: 123880
Place ID: 16819
A bold bluff-type nunatak (1782m) with a cliffed E face, located 5 mi W of Detour Nunatak in the upper part of Mackay Glacier, Victoria Land. Named after James Cowie of the Scott Base drilling project at Cape Roberts. |
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