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 Short (USA) | 72° 50' 00.0" S | 162° 13' 00.0" E | Mountain |
Name ID: 131566
Place ID: 13215
A mountain, 2,110 m, standing 1 mi E of Sculpture Mountain, in the upper Rennick Glacier. Mapped by USGS from surveys and USN air photos, 1960-64. Named by US-ACAN for Lt. Cdr. John S. Short, USN, LC-130F aircraft commander in Operation Deep Freeze 1967 and 1968. |
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