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
Östliche Petermann Range (USA) 71° 26' 00.0" S 12° 44' 00.0" E Range
Name ID: 129731 Place ID: 10720

One of the Petermann Ranges, trending in a N-S direction for 15 mi from Per Spur to Gornyy Inzhenery Kocks, in the Wohlthat Mountains, Queen Maud Land. Discovered and plotted from air photos by GerAE, 1938-39, and so named by them for its eastern location in the Petermann Ranges.

Östliche Petermannkette (DEU) 71° 25' 00.0" S 12° 40' 00.0" E Range
Name ID: 107033 Place ID: 10720

The E mountain chain (Norwegian name austre Petermannkjeda) of Petermannketten, ranging from the mountain Schneide at the N extremity, Deildenapen and Lyrittaren in the centre to Deildegasten at the S extremity, surrounded by the glaciers (austre) Svarthornbreen in the W and Deildebreen in the E, Wohlthatmassiv, Fimbulheimen, Neuschwabenland, Dronning Maud Land. Discovered during German Antarctic Expedition 1938/39 ('Neuschwabenland-Expedition') under Alfred Ritscher.

Petermannkjeda, Austre (NOR) 71° 25' 00.0" S 12° 40' 00.0" E Range
Name ID: 115752 Place ID: 10720

Range of mountains in the N part of Wohlthatmassivet, Fimbulheimen.

Zavarickogo, hrebet (RUS) 71° 25' 00.0" S 12° 43' 00.0" E Range
Name ID: 121488 Place ID: 10720

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