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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| Cape Petersen (RUS) | 71° 55' 00.0" S | 101° 15' 00.0" W | Cape |
| Name ID: 119933 Place ID: 11159 | |||
| Cape Petersen (USA) | 71° 54' 00.0" S | 101° 27' 00.0" W | Cape |
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Name ID: 130063
Place ID: 11159
A rounded ice-covered cape on the N side of Thurston Island, about 18 mi ENE of Cape Flying Fish. Delineated from air photos taken by USN Operation HighJump in December 1946. Named by US-ACAN for Carl O. Petersen, radio engineer with the ByrdAE in 1928-30 and 1933-35. |
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