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 Roer (USA) 72° 18' 00.0" S 0° 21' 00.0" E Mountain
Name ID: 130892 Place ID: 12284

An isolated mountain, 2,085 m, standing 7 mi W of Fuglefjellet in the Sverdrup Mountains, Queen Maud Land. Photographed from the air by the GerAE (1938-39). Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from surveys and air photos by NBSAE (1949-52) and air photos by the Norwegian expedition (1958-59). Named for Nils Roer, surveyor with the NBSAE.

Roerkulten (NOR) 72° 18' 00.0" S 0° 20' 00.0" E Mountain
Name ID: 115844 Place ID: 12284

Mountain S of Nilsevidda, H.U.Sverdrupfjella in Fimbulheimen. After Nils Roer, b. 1914, topographer on NBSAE, 1949-52. See also Nilsevidda.

Roerkulten (RUS) 72° 18' 00.0" S 0° 20' 00.0" E Mountain
Name ID: 120270 Place ID: 12284

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