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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| Amphitheatre Lake (AUS) | 68° 06' 00.0" S | 48° 45' 00.0" E | Water body |
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Name ID: 1196
Place ID: 310
A smooth-surfaced, melt lake approximately 3 km by 3 km running east-west. The lake is almost completely enclosed by rock and ice cliffs, forming an amphitheatre, with an outlet into the Rayner Glacier at the western end. Photographed in 1956 from ANARE aircraft and visited by an ANARE airborne field party in November, 1958. |
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| Mount Bentley (RUS) | 78° 07' 00.0" S | 86° 14' 00.0" W | Mountain |
| Name ID: 117059 Place ID: 1196 | |||
| Mount Bentley (USA) | 78° 07' 00.0" S | 86° 14' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 122429
Place ID: 1196
Mountain (4,245 m) standing 2 mi N of Mount Anderson in the main western ridge of the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains. Discovered by the Marie Byrd Land Traverse party, 1957-58, and named for Dr. Charles R. Bentley, leader of the traverse party and chief traverse seismologist at Byrd Station, 1957-59. |
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