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 Nordhill (GBR) | 70° 55' 00.0" S | 63° 27' 00.0" W | Mountain |
Name ID: 110376
Place ID: 10354
one of the Welch Mountains, central Palmer Land, rising to c. 2925m, was photographed from the air by USN, 1966-69, and mapped from air photographs by USGS; named after Cdr Claude H. Nordhill, USN, Operations Officer, Squadron VXE-6, ODF, 1970, and Commanding Officer, 1972 (APC, 1977, p.24; Singleton, 1979, map Fig.1; USGS sketch map Palmer Land (North Part), 1979). |
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Mount Nordhill (USA) | 70° 55' 00.0" S | 63° 27' 00.0" W | Mountain |
Name ID: 129470
Place ID: 10354
A high, sharp-pointed peak between Steel Peak and Kosky Peak in the east ridge of the Welch Mountains, in Palmer Land. The peak was mapped by USGS in 1974. Named by US-ACAN for Cdr. Claude H. Nordhill, USN, Operations Officer of Squadron VXE-6 in Antarctica during Operation Deep Freeze, 1970, and Commanding Officer, 1972. |
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