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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| Low Lake (AUS) | 67° 00' 38.0" S | 142° 40' 43.8" E | Water body |
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Name ID: 1171
Place ID: 8673
The largest lake and the lowest at Cape Denison. It lies in a depression between the two ridges at the ends of which are Beryl Hill to the west and Petrel Hill to the east. |
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| Mount Benkert (GBR) | 73° 38' 00.0" S | 76° 40' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 107750
Place ID: 1171
one of the Snow Nunataks (q.v.) rising to c. 700m, SE of Carroll Inlet, English Coast, was photographed from the air by USN, 1965-66; named after Capt. W.M. Benkert, USCG, commanding USCGC Eastwind, ODF, 1966 (USGS sketch map Bryan Coast-Ellsworth Land, 1968; [ r in 75 38'S 76 40'W, in error] APC, 1975, p.3). |
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| Mount Benkert (USA) | 73° 38' 00.0" S | 76° 40' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 122403
Place ID: 1171
The easternmost member of the Snow Nunataks, standing 8 mi ESE of Mount Thornton on the coast of Ellsworth Land. Discovered and photographed by the USAS, 1939-41. Named by US-ACAN for Capt. W.M. Benkert, USCG, commander of the Eastwind in Antarctica during Operation Deep Freeze 1966 and 1967. |
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