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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| Bettle Peak (NZL) | 77° 47' 00.0" S | 163° 30' 00.0" E | Peak |
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Name ID: 112787
Place ID: 1286
Highest peak 1500m, between the lower portions of Ferrar and Blue Glaciers. Named by USACAN for James F Bettle, meteorologist, scientific leader at McMurdo Station, wintering party 1962. |
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| Bettle Peak (USA) | 77° 47' 00.0" S | 163° 30' 00.0" E | Peak |
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Name ID: 122495
Place ID: 1286
Peak, 1,490 m, standing W of Bowers Piedmont Glacier and 6 mi N of Granite Knolls in Victoria Land. Named by the US-ACAN for James F. Bettle, USARP meteorologist and scientific leader at McMurdo station in 1962. |
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| Landon Promontory (AUS) | 69° 12' 00.0" S | 69° 10' 00.0" E | Promontory |
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Name ID: 1286
Place ID: 8075
A broad, domed ice promontory on the western side of the Amery Ice Shelf. Plotted from air photographs taken from an ANARE aircraft in 1956. The region was first visited by an ANARE party led by D.R. Carstens in November, 1962. Named after I. Landon-Smith, glaciologist at Mawson in 1962, a member of the field party. |
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