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
Noville Peninsula (RUS) 72° 00' 00.0" S 98° 30' 00.0" W Peninsula
Name ID: 119700 Place ID: 10427

Noville Peninsula (USA) 71° 56' 00.0" S 98° 35' 00.0" W Peninsula
Name ID: 129519 Place ID: 10427

High ice-covered peninsula about 30 mi long, between Peale and Murphy Inlets on the N side of Thurston Island. Delineated from aerial photographs made by USN Operation HighJump in December 1946. Named for George O. Noville, executive officer of ByrdAE, 1933-35.

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