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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| Bermel Escarpment (USA) | 85° 17' 00.0" S | 89° 30' 00.0" W | Escarpment |
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Name ID: 122453
Place ID: 1233
A snow and rock escarpment, 15 mi long, extending from the base of Ford Massif to King Peak, in the Thiel Mountains. The escarpment drops 300 to 400 m from the polar plateau to the ice surface N of these mountains. Named by US-ACAN after Peter F. Bermel, cartographer, USGS (Bermel Peninsula, q.v.); co-leader (with Arthur B. Ford) of the USGS Thiel Mountains party which surveyed the mountains in 1960-61; leader of USGS Topo East and Topo West, 1962-63, in which geodetic control was extended from the area of Cape Hallett to the Wilson Hills (Topo West), and from the foot of Beardmore Glacier through the Horlick Mountains (Topo East). |
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| Tassie Lake (AUS) | 68° 32' 29.4" S | 78° 13' 05.2" E | Water body |
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Name ID: 1233
Place ID: 14444
A lake north-west of Club Lake, Vestfold Hills. It is the westernmost of two lakes of similar size and lies on the route between Davis and Platcha. |
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