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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| Beard Peak (USA) | 86° 40' 00.0" S | 145° 25' 00.0" W | Peak |
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Name ID: 122317
Place ID: 1053
A peak, 2,360 m, along the N edge of the La Gorce Mountains, standing 4 mi S of the E tip of Mount Mooney. Mapped by USGS from surveys and USN air photos, 1960-63. Named by US-ACAN for Philip H. Beard, photographer with USN Squadron VX-6 during Operation Deep Freeze 1966 and 1967. |
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| Chick Island (AUS) | 66° 47' 22.0" S | 120° 59' 19.0" E | Island |
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Name ID: 1053
Place ID: 2614
A small isolated rock on the eastern end of Sabrina Coast. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47) Visited and its position fixed by ANARE Expedition under Phillip Law in 1960. Named by USACAN after Amos Chick, carpenter on the sloop Vincennes of the USEE under Wilkes (1838-42). |
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