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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| Bessinger Nunatak (GBR) | 85° 05' 00.0" S | 64° 38' 00.0" W | Nunatak |
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Name ID: 107785
Place ID: 1277
rising to 1640m, S end of Patuxent Range, Pensacola Mountains, was surveyed from the ground by USGS in 1961-62, and photographed from the air by USN in 1964; named after Lieut. C.D. Bessinger, Jr, USN (MC), Officer-in-charge, "South Pole Station", 1963 (USGS sheet SV 11-20/8*, 1968; APC, 1974, p.3). |
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| Bessinger Nunatak (USA) | 85° 05' 00.0" S | 64° 41' 00.0" W | Nunatak |
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Name ID: 122488
Place ID: 1277
A mound-shaped nunatak, 1,640 m, standing at the SW end of Mackin Table, 3 mi E of Mount Tolchin, in southern Patuxent Range, Pensacola Mountains. Mapped by USGS from surveys and USN air photos, 1956-66. Named by US-ACAN for Lt. C.D. Bessinger, Jr. (MC) USN, officer in charge of South Pole Station, winter 1963. |
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| Chelnok Lake (AUS) | 68° 38' 44.2" S | 78° 20' 26.2" E | Water body |
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Name ID: 1277
Place ID: 2585
A melt lake between the rock of the southern part of the Vestfold Hills and the Sxrsdal Glacier. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956 and ANARE in 1957 and 1958. |
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