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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| Mount Porteus (AUS) | 66° 49' 07.0" S | 51° 03' 16.7" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 1468
Place ID: 11493
One of the Tula Mountains, about 2 km east of Peacock Ridge. Plotted from air photographs taken by ANARE during 1956. Named after W.F. Porteus, a member of the crew of the Discovery during BANZARE (1929-31). |
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| Mount Porteus (USA) | 66° 49' 00.0" S | 51° 03' 00.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 130277
Place ID: 11493
Mountain just E of Peacock Ridge, in the Tula Mountains in Enderby Land. Plotted from air photos taken from ANARE aircraft in 1956. Named by ANCA for W.F. Porteus, a member of the crew of the Discovery during the BANZARE, 1929-31. |
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