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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| Mount Schumann (RUS) | 71° 38' 00.0" S | 73° 38' 00.0" W | Mountain |
| Name ID: 120442 Place ID: 12876 | |||
| Mount Schumann (GBR) | 71° 40' 00.0" S | 73° 42' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 111083
Place ID: 12876
rising to c. 500m SW of the head of Brahms Inlet, Beethoven Peninsula, W Alexander Island, was photographed from the air by RARE in 1947 and mapped from air photographs by FIDS in 1959; in association with the names of composers in this area, named after Robert Schumann (1810-56), German composer ([in 71°35'S 73°38'W] APC, 1961, p.3; DOS 710 sheet 14, 1963; [co-ordinates corrected from US LANDSAT imagery of January 1973] BAS 250P sheet SR 17-18/15, 16, 1-DOS 1974; APC, 1977, p.29). |
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| Mount Schumann (USA) | 71° 38' 00.0" S | 73° 42' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 131315
Place ID: 12876
Mountain rising to c. 600 m SW of the head of Brahms Inlet on Beethoven Peninsula in the SW part of Alexander Island. First mapped from air photos taken by the RARE, 1947-48, by Searle of the FIDS in 1960. Named by the UK-APC after Robert Schumann (1810-56), German composer. |
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