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
Mount Sharp (RUS) 77° 54' 00.0" S 86° 08' 00.0" W Mountain
Name ID: 120524 Place ID: 13104

Mount Sharp (USA) 77° 53' 00.0" S 86° 10' 00.0" W Mountain
Name ID: 131483 Place ID: 13104

Mountain over 3,000 m, standing 2 mi SE of Mount Barden in the N part of the Sentinel Range. Mapped by the Marie Byrd Land Traverse party, 1957-58, who named the mountain for Prof. Robert P. Sharp, member of the Technical Panel on Glaciology, U.S. National Committee for the IGY.

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