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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| Rare Range (GBR) | 74° 24' 00.0" S | 64° 05' 00.0" W | Range |
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Name ID: 110800
Place ID: 11884
rising to c. 1400m between Irvine Glacier and Wetmore Glacier, Orville Coast, and including Copper Nunataks, Mount Crowell and Mount Sumner, was photographed from the air by USN, 1965-67, and mapped from air photographs by USGS; named after the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition, 1947-48 (Capt. F. Ronne, USNR, Ronne Entrance, q.v.) (USGS sketch map Ellsworth Land-Palmer Land, 1969; APC, 1975, p.4; BAS 500P sheet SS 17-20/SE, 1-DOS 1981). |
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| Rare Range (USA) | 74° 24' 00.0" S | 64° 05' 00.0" W | Range |
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Name ID: 130564
Place ID: 11884
A rugged mountain range between the Wetmore and Irvine Glaciers, in Palmer Land. Discovered and photographed from the air by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition, 1947-48. Named by US-ACAN (using the initials of the Ronne expedition) in recognition of the contributions made by this expedition to knowledge of Palmer Land and the Antarctic Peninsula area. |
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