Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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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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| Buckley Island (NZL) | 84° 57' 00.0" S | 164° 00' 00.0" E | Island |
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Name ID: 112891
Place ID: 1989
An island at the head of Beardmore Glacier, near Mt Darwin, which divides the glavier into two streams. There are three peaks on the island and it is almost free from snow, though there is a small tributary glacier flowing gently down its eastern slope. It was on this island that Wild discovered coal in 1908. The island was discovered by the South Polar Party of the BAE, 1907-09, on 16 December 1908 and named for Shackleton for his New Zealand friend, George Buckley, a sheep farmer, of Ashburton, who went in the Nimrod as far as the pack-ice, where he was transferred by whale-boat to the koonya and returned to New Zealand. |
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| Buckley Island (USA) | 84° 57' 00.0" S | 164° 00' 00.0" E | Island |
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Name ID: 123050
Place ID: 1989
An island-like mountain massif, surmounted by the peaks of Mount Bartlett, Mount Buckley and Mount Bowers, rising above the ice at the middle of the head of Beardmore Glacier. Discovered by the BrAE (1907-09) and named in association with Mount Buckley, 2,645 m, its highest peak. |
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| Schmitter Peak (AUS) | 71° 15' 23.4" S | 66° 18' 47.2" E | Peak |
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Name ID: 1989
Place ID: 12839
A small mountain peak about 7 km south-west of Mount Woinarski in the Prince Charles Mountains. Plotted from ANARE air photographs taken in 1956 and 1960. Named after Ulrich Schmitter, cook at Davis in 1964. |
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