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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| Schirmacher Hills (USA) | 70° 45' 00.0" S | 11° 40' 00.0" E | Hill |
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Name ID: 131268
Place ID: 12819
A line of low coastal hills, 11 mi long, with numerous meltwater ponds, standing 40 mi N of the Humboldt Mountains along the coast of Queen Maud Land. Discovered by GerAE under Ritscher, 1938-39, and named for Richardheinrich Schirmacher, pilot of the Boreas, one of the expedition seaplanes. |
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| Vassfjellet (NOR) | 70° 45' 00.0" S | 11° 40' 00.0" E | Hill |
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Name ID: 116282
Place ID: 12819
Mountain, about 19 km long and about 3 km broad on the widest, in the edge between the inland ice and the ice shelf in Fimbulheimen / Prinsesse Astrid Kyst. V.=the water mountain. |
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