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
Oeschger Bluff (USA) 76° 24' 00.0" S 111° 48' 00.0" W Bluff
Name ID: 129614 Place ID: 10558

A flat-topped snow and rock bluff that projects from the southeast part of Mount Takahe in Marie Byrd Land. Mapped by USGS from surveys and U.S. Navy tricamera aerial photography, 1959-66. Named by US-ACAN for Hans Oeschger (University of Bern, Switzerland), USARP glaciologist at Byrd Station, 1968-69 and 1969-70.

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