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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| Tazieff Rocks (NZL) | 77° 27' 00.0" S | 166° 30' 00.0" E | Rock |
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Name ID: 134201
Place ID: 17141
Feature n.12 in ACAN minutes of 19/06/2000. A nunatak 0.8 mi SE of Micou Point, Ross Island. It rises to c. 200 m at the S end of Endeavour Piedmont Glacier. At the instance of P R Kyle, named by US-ACAN after Haroun Tazieff (d.), a renowned French volcanologist who worked at Mount Erebus with several groups of French scientists in three field seasons, 1973- 79. |
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| Tazieff Rocks (USA) | 77° 27' 00.0" S | 166° 30' 00.0" E | Rock |
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Name ID: 132516
Place ID: 17141
A nunatak 0.8 mi SE of Micou Point, Ross Island. It rises to c.200 m at the S end of Endeavour Piedmont Glacier. At the suggestion of P.R. Kyle, named by US-ACAN after Haroun Tazieff (d.), a renowned French volcanologist who worked at Mount Erebus with several groups of French scientists in three field seasons, 1973-79. |
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