Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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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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| Laseron Islands (AUS) | 67° 00' 20.0" S | 142° 50' 00.0" E | Island |
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Name ID: 1139
Place ID: 8164
A group of small rocky islands about 5 km ENE of Cape Denison, George V Land. Discovered in January, 1912, by the Main Base party of AAE under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named them after C.F. Laseron, a member of the AAE expedition. |
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| Mount Bellingshausen (NZL) | 75° 07' 00.0" S | 162° 06' 00.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 112768
Place ID: 1139
A steep, conspicuous cone, about 975m high, lying on the south side of the Larsen Glacier on the east coast of Victoria Land. Discovered by the NAE, 1901-04, which named this peak for Admiral Thaddeus von Bellingshausen. Bellingshausen, then a Captain, led a Russian expedition sent out by Emperor Alexander I in 1819-21, which discovered the first certain land in the Antarctic - Peter I Island and Alexander I Land - during a circuit of the world in the highest possible south latitudes, following the edge of the ice pack. Mt Bellinghausen. |
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| Mount Bellingshausen (RUS) | 75° 12' 00.0" S | 162° 25' 00.0" E | Mountain |
| Name ID: 117037 Place ID: 1139 | |||
| Mount Bellingshausen (USA) | 75° 07' 00.0" S | 162° 06' 00.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 122385
Place ID: 1139
A conspicuous cone-shaped mountain, 1,380 m, standing 5 mi NE of Mount Priestley between Larsen and David Glaciers, in the Prince Albert Mountains of Victoria Land. Discovered by the BrNAE, 1901-04, led by Scott, and named by him after Admiral Thaddeus Bellingshausen, leader of the Russian expedition of 1819-21. |
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