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
Baumann Crag (NZL) 78° 24' 31.6" S 161° 05' 33.1" E Crag
Name ID: 139675 Place ID: 1011

A rock crag rising to 1450m and forming the southern end of Halfway Nunatak, Victoria Land. Feature depicted on: NZ AntTopo50-MH08

Baumann Crag (USA) 78° 24' 00.0" S 161° 05' 00.0" E Crag
Name ID: 122283 Place ID: 1011

A rock crag rising to 1,265 m and forming the S end of Halfway Nunatak, Victoria Land. Named by US-ACAN in 1994 after Christopher C. Baumann, USGS cartographer; member of the satellite surveying team at South Pole Station, winter party 1984; leader of the USGS mapping control field team on Seymour Island, summer season, 1992-93.

Thorfinn Islands (AUS) 67° 16' 59.2" S 60° 56' 12.1" E Island
Name ID: 1011 Place ID: 14647

A group of small islands about 13 km off the coast of Mac.Robertson Land between Campbell Head and Cape Simpson. The islands were probably discovered by BANZARE (1929-31) under Sir Douglas Mawson. They were charted by Norwegian whalers who called them Thorfinnxyane (The Thorfinn Islands).

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