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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| Big Brother Bluff (AUS) | 71° 28' 00.1" S | 159° 49' 59.9" E | Bluff |
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Name ID: 169
Place ID: 1311
A high granite bluff on the western side of the Daniels Range in Oates Land. This feature is visible from 95 km north and from many points across the Rennick Glacier (Ross Dependency). Named by the New Zealand Geological and Survey Antarctic Expedition (1963-64) from the saying in George Orwell's novel 1984. |
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| Big Brother Bluff (NZL) | 71° 27' 08.5" S | 159° 48' 07.4" E | Bluff |
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Name ID: 139338
Place ID: 1311
A high granite bluff on the western side of the Daniels Range, USARP Mountains, in Oates Land. This feature is visible from 95km north and from many points across the Rennick Glacier (Ross Dependency). |
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| Big Brother Bluff (USA) | 71° 28' 00.0" S | 159° 48' 00.0" E | Bluff |
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Name ID: 122509
Place ID: 1311
A high, angular granite bluff (2,840 m) along the W wall of Daniels Range, 6 mi N of Mount Burnham, in the Usarp Mountains. So named by the northern party of NZGSAE, 1963-64, because it is visible from 50 mi N and from many points across Rennick Glacier. Hence the reminiscence from George Orwell's famous saying. |
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| Crohn Massif (AUS) | 70° 28' 00.0" S | 64° 55' 00.0" E | Massif |
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Name ID: 1311
Place ID: 3131
A large, domed massif west of Mt Kirkby in the Porthos Range, Prince Charles Mountains. It is approximately 7 km long east-west and 4 km wide, rising about 460 m above the surrounding plateau. It is not visible from the east or north-east. There are two small conical peaks of the eastern extremity. Sighted by the ANARE southern party, led by William G Bewsher, in January 1957, and named after Peter W Crohn, geologist at Mawson in 1955 and 1956. |
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