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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| Mariner Hill (GBR) | 71° 51' 57.0" S | 68° 16' 52.0" W | Hill |
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Name ID: 110005
Place ID: 9002
Snow-free conical hill, approx. 500m, between Sytris Hill and Two Steps Cliffs, S Alexander Island. Named after Mariner 9, NASA probe which was the first to orbit planet Mars in 1971 (APC, 1993). |
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| Mariner Hill (USA) | 71° 51' 00.0" S | 68° 20' 00.0" W | Hill |
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Name ID: 128433
Place ID: 9002
A prominent snow-free conical hill, rising to c. 500 m, midway between Syrtis Hill and Two Step Cliffs, Alexander Island. Named by UK-APC in 1993 after Mariner 9, the NASA probe which was the first spacecraft to orbit the planet Mars, in 1971. |
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