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
Smith Peak (RUS) 72° 15' 00.0" S 99° 05' 00.0" W Peak
Name ID: 120651 Place ID: 13537

Smith Peak (USA) 72° 10' 00.0" S 99° 18' 00.0" W Peak
Name ID: 131799 Place ID: 13537

A prominent peak of the Walker Mountains, rising SE of the head of Potaka Inlet and 6 mi ENE of Mount Hubbard, on Thurston Island. Delineated from air photos taken by USN Operation HighJump in December 1946. Named by US-ACAN for Dean C. Smith, aviation pilot of the ByrdAE in 1928-30.

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