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
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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