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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| Napier Mountains (AUS) | 66° 30' 00.0" S | 53° 40' 00.1" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 1479
Place ID: 10078
A group of peaks extending south-eastfrom Mount Codrington in Enderby Land, the highest being about 2300 m. Discovered in January, 1930, by BANZARE (1929-31) under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it after the Hon. Sir John Mellis Napier, a Judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia, 1924-42, Chief Justice of South Australia, 1942-67. First visited by an ANARE party in 1960. |
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| Napier Mountains (RUS) | 66° 30' 00.0" S | 54° 00' 00.0" E | Mountain |
| Name ID: 119582 Place ID: 10078 | |||
| Napier Mountains (USA) | 66° 30' 00.0" S | 53° 40' 00.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 129269
Place ID: 10078
Group of more-or-less separated peaks, the highest 2,300 m, extending 40 mi in a NW-SE direction and centering about 40 mi S of Cape Batterbee in Enderby Land. Discovered in January 1930 by the BANZARE under Mawson, who named them for the Hon. John Mellis Napier, a judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia. |
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