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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| High Lake (AUS) | 67° 00' 42.2" S | 142° 40' 34.1" E | Water body |
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Name ID: 1170
Place ID: 6368
A small lake to the south-west of Low lake and due west of East Lake. At 40 m it is the highest lake at Cape Denison. The lake lies about 725 m ESE from Mawson's main hut. |
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| Mount Benjamin (USA) | 85° 48' 00.0" S | 160° 06' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 122402
Place ID: 1170
A prominent mountain, 1,750 m, rising sharply at the W side of Amundsen Glacier, 5 mi SE of Mount Ellsworth, in the Queen Maud Mountains. First seen and mapped by the ByrdAE, 1928-30. Named by US-ACAN for Benjamin F. Smith, meteorologist with the McMurdo Station winter party, 1963. |
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