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
Pieck Range (USA) 71° 45' 00.0" S 12° 06' 00.0" E Range
Name ID: 130122 Place ID: 11245

A short mountain range surmounted by Zwiesel Mountain, located at the E side of Humboldt Graben in the Petermann Ranges, Wohlthat Mountains. Discovered and plotted from air photos by GerAE, 1938-39. Mapped from air photos and surveys by NorAE, 1956-60; remapped by SovAE, 1960-61, and named after Wilhelm Pieck, first President of communist East Germany.

Pieckryggen (NOR) 71° 45' 30.0" S 12° 06' 00.0" E Range
Name ID: 115762 Place ID: 11245

25 km long mountain ridge in Wohlthatmassivet, between Humboldtsøkket and Austre Høgskeidet / Parisbreen, Fimbulheimen. After Wilhelm Pieck, the first president of East Germany.

Vil'gel'ma pika, hrebet (RUS) 71° 44' 00.0" S 12° 08' 00.0" E Range
Name ID: 121217 Place ID: 11245

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