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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| Spouter Peak (GBR) | 65° 49' 00.0" S | 62° 24' 00.0" W | Peak |
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Name ID: 111341
Place ID: 13861
rising to 615m on W side of Scar Inlet, Oscar II Coast, was surveyed by FIDS from "Hope Bay" in 1947; in association with names from Moby Dick or the whale in this area, named after the Spouter Inn, New Bedford, where the story opens (APC, 1958, p.6; BA chart 3570, 29.ix.1961); further surveyed by BAS from "Stonington Island", 1964-65. |
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| Spouter Peak (USA) | 65° 49' 00.0" S | 62° 23' 00.0" W | Peak |
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Name ID: 132038
Place ID: 13861
Conspicuous rock peak, 615 m, standing 4.5 mi SSW of Daggoo Peak at the S side of the mouth of Flask Glacier, on the E coast of Graham Land. Surveyed and partially photographed by the FIDS in 1947. Named by the UK-APC in 1956 after the Spouter Inn, New Bedford, where Herman Melville's story Moby-Dick opens. |
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