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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| The Obelisk (GBR) | 71° 48' 00.0" S | 70° 24' 00.0" W | |
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Name ID: 110414
Place ID: 10506
highest of the Staccato Peaks (q.v.), Alexander Island, rising to 985m, was named descriptively ([in 71°50'S 70°33'W] APC, 1961, p.3; DOS 710 sheet 14, 1963; Searle, 1963, end map; [co-ordinates corrected from USLANDSAT imagery of January 1973] BAS 250P sheet SR 19-20/13, 1-DOS 1974; APC, 1977, p.24). |
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| The Obelisk (USA) | 71° 50' 00.0" S | 70° 33' 00.0" W | |
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Name ID: 129587
Place ID: 10506
Prominent pillar, 750 m, centrally located within Staccato Peaks, 18 mi WNW of Mimas Peak in the S part of Alexander Island. First seen from the air by Lincoln Ellsworth on Nov. 23, 1935, and roughly mapped from photos taken on that flight by W.L.G. Joerg. Remapped from air photos taken by the RARE, 1947-48, by Searle of the FIDS in 1960. Name given by the UK-APC is descriptive. |
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