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
Mount Smith (NZL) 76° 03' 20.3" S 161° 33' 45.7" E Mountain
Name ID: 139514 Place ID: 13549

A peak, about 1440m high rising above a mountain mass about 30km inland from the coast of Victoria Land in the Prince Albert Mountains.

Mount Smith (RUS) 76° 00' 00.0" S 161° 40' 00.0" E Mountain
Name ID: 120656 Place ID: 13549

Mount Smith (USA) 76° 03' 00.0" S 161° 42' 00.0" E Mountain
Name ID: 131810 Place ID: 13549

Peak over 1,400 m, standing N of Mawson Glacier and 7 mi NNW of Mount Murray in Victoria Land. Discovered by the BrNAE (1901-04) which probably named this peak for W.E. Smith, Chief Naval Constructor, who prepared the plans and supervised construction of the expedition ship Discovery.

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