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
Paulsen Mountains (RUS) 72° 15' 00.0" S 1° 30' 00.0" E Mountain
Name ID: 119879 Place ID: 10972

Paulsen Mountains (USA) 72° 10' 00.0" S 1° 21' 00.0" E Mountain
Name ID: 129919 Place ID: 10972

A group of mountains including Brattskarvet Mountain, Vendeholten Mountain and Tverrveggen Ridge, located in the northern part of the Sverdrup Mountains in Queen Maud Land. Discovered by the GerAE under Alfred Ritscher, 1938-39, and named for Karl-Heinz Paulsen, oceanographer on the expedition.

Paulsenberge (DEU) 72° 10' 00.0" S 1° 20' 00.0" E Mountain
Name ID: 107037 Place ID: 10972

Groups of mountains and nunataks comprising the N-most located nunatak Holane, Brattskarvett, Vendeholten and Vendehö, in the NE of H.U.Sverdrupfjella, Fimbulheimen, Neuschwabenland, Dronning Maud Land. Discovered during German Antarctic Expedition 1938/39 ('Neuschwabenland-Expedition') under Alfred Ritscher.

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