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 Griffith (NZL) | 85° 53' 00.0" S | 155° 30' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 113440
Place ID: 5691
A peak, about 1676m high, lying close north of the Will Hays Mountains between Amundsen and Robert Scott Glaciers in the Queen Maud Range. Discovered in December 1934 by the Geological Party, led by Blackburn, of the Byrd AE, 1933-35. Named by Byrd for Raymond Griffith, of Twentieth Century Fox pictures, who assisted in assembling motion picture records of the expedition. |
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| Mount Griffith (RUS) | 85° 50' 00.0" S | 155° 30' 00.0" W | Mountain |
| Name ID: 118291 Place ID: 5691 | |||
| Mount Griffith (USA) | 85° 53' 00.0" S | 155° 30' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 125959
Place ID: 5691
A massive mountain, 3,095 m, standing 4 mi NNE of Mount Vaughan in the Hays Mountains of the Queen Maud Mountains. First observed and roughly mapped in December 1929 by the ByrdAE geological party under Laurence Gould. Remapped in December 1934 by the ByrdAE geological party under Quin Blackburn, and named by Byrd for Raymond Griffith, of Twentieth Century-Fox Pictures, who assisted in assembling motion-picture records of the expedition. |
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