Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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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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| Ronald Hill (RUS) | 62° 58' 00.0" S | 60° 35' 00.0" W | Hill |
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| Ronald Hill (GBR) | 62° 58' 17.2" S | 60° 34' 18.7" W | Hill |
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Name ID: 110926
Place ID: 12330
rising to c. 100m on N side of Whalers Bay (q.v.), Deception Island, following geological work by NAE, 1927-28, was named Mount Ronald after the Norwegian factory ship Ronald of the Hektor Whaling Company, which operated from Whalers Bay for many seasons in the period 1911-31 (Holtedahl, 1929, p.29, 31 and Pl. 13-16 following p.172). Ronald Hill (APC, 1958, p.6; DOS 310 Deception Island sheet, 1960). Monte Ronald (Sgrosso, 1948, p.189). |
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| Ronald Hill (USA) | 62° 59' 00.0" S | 60° 35' 00.0" W | Hill |
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Name ID: 130917
Place ID: 12330
Rocky ice-free hill, 105 m, standing N of Kroner Lake in Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands. Charted, photographed and named by Olaf Holtedahl of the Norwegian expedition 1927-28, after the floating factory S.S. Ronald, which belonged to the Hektor Whaling Co. and was anchored at Deception Island in 1911-12 and many later seasons. |
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