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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| Röntgen Peak (GBR) | 64° 02' 00.0" S | 62° 18' 00.0" W | Peak |
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Name ID: 110932
Place ID: 12343
rising to c. 700m on Pasteur Peninsula, N Brabant Island, was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57; in association with the names of pioneers of medicine grouped in this area, named after Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen (1845-1923), German physicist who discovered X-rays in 1895; Professor of Physics, University of Würzburg, and Nobel Laureate in physics, 1901 (APC, 1960, p.7; [shown in error 2km SSW of position] BAS 250 sheet SQ 19-20/4, 1-DOS 1974). |
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| Röntgen Peak (USA) | 64° 02' 00.0" S | 62° 17' 00.0" W | Peak |
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Name ID: 130927
Place ID: 12343
Peak 1 mi SE of Cape Cockburn in the NE part of Pasteur Peninsula, Brabant Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. Shown on an Argentine government chart in 1953, but not named. Photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1956-57, and mapped from these photos in 1959. Named by the UK-APC for Wilhelm K. von Rontgen (1845-1923), German physicist who discovered X-rays in 1895. |
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