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 Matheson (GBR) | 75° 05' 00.0" S | 72° 09' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 110039
Place ID: 9133
one of the Merrick Mountains (q.v.), rising to c. 1400m, was named after Lorne D. Matheson, USARP ionosphericist, "Eights Station", 1963 (USGS sketch map Ellsworth Land-Palmer Land, 1969; APC, 1975, p.4; BAS 500P sheet SS 17-20/SE, 1-DOS 1981). |
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| Mount Matheson (USA) | 75° 05' 00.0" S | 72° 10' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 128536
Place ID: 9133
A mountain 2 mi NW of Mount Boyer, in the Merrick Mountains, Ellsworth Land. Mapped by USGS from surveys and USN air photos, 1961-67. Named by US-ACAN for Lorne D. Matheson, ionospheric physics researcher at Eights Station in 1963. |
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