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 Provender (RUS) | 80° 23' 00.0" S | 29° 55' 00.0" W | Mountain |
Name ID: 120114 Place ID: 11674 | |||
Mount Provender (GBR) | 80° 23' 00.0" S | 29° 55' 00.0" W | Mountain |
Name ID: 110725
Place ID: 11674
NW peak of Shackleton Range, rising to 900m NE of Nostoc Lake (q.v.), was surveyed by TAE in October 1957 and so named because a support camp, with a depot of food and fuel, was established on Nostoc Lake nearby (APC, 1962, p.25; DOS 610 sheet W 80 28/30, 1963). |
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Mount Provender (USA) | 80° 23' 00.0" S | 29° 55' 00.0" W | Mountain |
Name ID: 130402
Place ID: 11674
Conspicuous rock mountain, 900 m, marking the NW extremity of the Shackleton Range. First mapped in 1957 by the CTAE and so named because members of the CTAE established a depot of food and fuel and an airplane camp on the S side of the mountain in 1957 to support sledging parties working in the Shackleton Range. |
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