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 Sheffield (RUS) | 80° 10' 00.0" S | 25° 42' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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| Mount Sheffield (GBR) | 80° 10' 00.0" S | 25° 42' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 111143
Place ID: 13133
N-most peak of Shackleton Range rising to 785m, was roughly surveyed by TAE in October 1957 and named after Alfred Harold Sheffield (1900-83), Chairman, IGY Radio Communications Working Group, who greatly assisted TAE in the radio field (APC, 1962, p.28; DOS 610 sheet W 80 24/26, 1963; BAS 250P sheet SU 26-30/1, 1-DOS 1978); photographed from the air by USN in 1967 and resurveyed from the ground by BAS from Halley, 1968-71. |
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| Mount Sheffield (USA) | 80° 10' 00.0" S | 25° 42' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 131501
Place ID: 13133
Rocky mountain, 915 m, at the junction of Gordon and Slessor Glaciers on the N side of the Shackleton Range. First mapped in 1957 by the CTAE and named for Alfred H. Sheffield, Chairman of the radio communications working group for the IGY, who was of great assistance in this field to the CTAE, 1955-58. |
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