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
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).

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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