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 Osborne (RUS) | 78° 37' 00.0" S | 84° 46' 00.0" W | Mountain |
Name ID: 119790 Place ID: 10704 | |||
Mount Osborne (USA) | 78° 37' 00.0" S | 84° 47' 00.0" W | Mountain |
Name ID: 129719
Place ID: 10704
A mountain (2,600 m) on the SW side of Thomas Glacier, 5 mi E of Mount Craddock, in the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains. First mapped by USGS from surveys and USN air photos, 1957-59. Named by US-ACAN for Thomas M. Osborne, Navy builder, who helped construct and served at the South Pole Station with the winter party, 1957. |
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