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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| Polarstar Peak (RUS) | 77° 32' 00.0" S | 86° 09' 00.0" W | Peak |
| Name ID: 120012 Place ID: 11423 | |||
| Polarstar Peak (USA) | 77° 32' 00.0" S | 86° 09' 00.0" W | Peak |
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Name ID: 130231
Place ID: 11423
Peak rising above 2,400 m, standing 3 mi N of Mount Ulmer in the N part of the Sentinel Range. Discovered by Lincoln Ellsworth on his trans-Antarctic flight of Nov. 23, 1935. Named by the US-ACAN for the airplane Polar Star in which Ellsworth made the historic flight. |
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