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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| Sirius Knoll (GBR) | 63° 43' 00.0" S | 58° 39' 00.0" W | Knoll |
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Name ID: 111200
Place ID: 13336
rising to 1010m on the S side of Russell West Glacier, Trinity Peninsula, was surveyed by FIDS from "Hope Bay" in August 1946 and, in association with Mount Canicula (q.v.), named after Sirius, the dog star, whose appearance according to classical writers always caused great heat upon the Earth; it was in the vicinity of this feature that a FIDS sledge party first saw the returning sun in the spring of 1948 (APC, 1955, p.19; BA chart 3205, 23.xi.1962; BAS 250 sheet SP 21-22/13, 1-DOS 1974); further surveyed by FIDS from "Hope Bay", 1959-60. |
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| Sirius Knoll (USA) | 63° 43' 00.0" S | 58° 36' 00.0" W | Knoll |
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Name ID: 131656
Place ID: 13336
Conspicuous ice-covered knoll, 1,010 m, marking the NE end of Detroit Plateau in the central part of Trinity Peninsula. Charted in 1946 by the FIDS and named after Sirius, the dog star. |
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