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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| Knott Nunatak (GBR) | 70° 40' 00.0" S | 69° 27' 00.0" W | Nunatak |
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Name ID: 109650
Place ID: 7667
rising to c. 750m on SE side of Purcell Snowfield, W of Snick Pass, Alexander Island, was surveyed by BAS in 1973 and named after Christopher Edward Knott (b.1944), BAS general assistant, "Stonington Island", 1974-75, and Adelaide, 1975-76, who plane-tabled this area (APC, 1980, p.4; BAS 250P sheet SR 19-20/9, 1-DOS 1978). |
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| Knott Nunatak (USA) | 70° 40' 00.0" S | 69° 27' 00.0" W | Nunatak |
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Name ID: 127505
Place ID: 7667
A nunatak 1 mi NW of the N end of LeMay Range, Alexander Island. Photographed from the air by RARE, 1947-48, and mapped from these photographs by D. Searle of FIDS, 1960. Named by UK-APC in 1977 for Christopher E. Knott, BAS general assistant, Stonington Island, 1974-75, and Adelaide Island, 1975-76, who participated in a plane-table survey of this area. |
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