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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| Bildad Peak (GBR) | 65° 49' 00.0" S | 62° 36' 00.0" W | Peak |
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Name ID: 107797
Place ID: 1320
rising to c. 800m at head of Scar Inlet, Oscar II Coast, was surveyed by FIDS from "Hope Bay" in September 1955; named after the fictional Capt. Bildad, part-owner of the whaling ship Pequod (Pequod Glacier, q.v.), in association with other names from Moby Dick in this area (APC, 1958, p.4; BA chart 3570, 29.ix.1961). |
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| Bildad Peak (USA) | 65° 49' 00.0" S | 62° 36' 00.0" W | Peak |
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Name ID: 122519
Place ID: 1320
A conspicuous snow-capped peak 5 mi W of Spouter Peak on the S side of Flask Glacier, in Graham Land. Surveyed by FIDS in 1955. Named by UK-APC after the fictional Captain Bildad, part-owner of the whaling ship Pequod in Herman Melville's Moby Dick. |
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| Murray Monolith (AUS) | 67° 47' 03.4" S | 66° 53' 16.7" E | Monolith |
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Name ID: 1320
Place ID: 10000
A rock outcrop on the coast of Mac.Robertson Land, about 9 km east of Scullin Monolith; about 340 m above sea level. Land was sighted in this vicinity by BANZARE (1929-31) in January, 1930. During the second voyage of BANZARE on 13 February, 1931, a flag and proclamation were thrown ashore just before a landing was made at the nearby Scullin Monolith. Named by Sir Douglas Mawson after Sir George Murray, Chief Justice of South Australia and Chancellor of the University of Adelaide, a patron of the expedition. |
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