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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Saunders Hill (USA) | 66° 19' 00.0" S | 110° 32' 00.0" E | Hill |
Name ID: 131216
Place ID: 12757
A rounded, rocky hill which projects into the SE part of O'Brien Bay, just E of the Windmill Islands. First mapped from air photos taken by USN Operation HighJump, 1946-47. Named by US-ACAN after William Y. Saunders, biologist at Wilkes Station in 1961. |
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