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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Parker Peak (RUS) | 72° 22' 00.0" S | 97° 10' 00.0" W | Peak |
Name ID: 119851 Place ID: 10907 | |||
Parker Peak (USA) | 72° 18' 00.0" S | 97° 24' 00.0" W | Peak |
Name ID: 129861
Place ID: 10907
A peak of the Walker Mountains rising at the base of Evans Peninsula on Thurston Island. Delineated from air photos taken by USN Squadron VX-6 in January 1960. Named by US-ACAN for Alton N. Parker, aviation pilot of the ByrdAE in 1928-30. |
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