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 Bistre (GBR) | 65° 03' 00.0" S | 62° 03' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 107816
Place ID: 1375
rising to 1295m N of Exasperation Inlet, Oscar II Coast, after surveys by FIDS from "Hope Bay" in November 1947 and September 1955 was named from the colour of its E and S rock faces (APC, 1958, p.4; BA chart 3570, 29.ix.1961). |
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| Mount Bistre (USA) | 65° 03' 00.0" S | 62° 03' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 122561
Place ID: 1375
A mountain on the N side of Evans Glacier on the E side of Graham Land. Surveyed by FIDS in 1947, and again in 1955. The name, by UK-APC, is descriptive of the dark brown color of the steep E and S rock faces of the feature. |
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| Mount Metschel (AUS) | 78° 15' 00.0" S | 159° 00' 00.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 1375
Place ID: 9487
A conspicuous ice-free mountain, surmounted by a peak 1,843 m high, 7 km south-east of Angino Buttress and Skelton Icefalls. Plotted from US Navy air photographs. Named by USACAN after Cmdr. J.J. Metschel, USN, commander of the Icebreaker, USS Staten Island, 1962-63. |
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