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.

Showing all 2 place names.

Name Latitude Longitude Feature Type
Station Nunatak (GBR) 64° 22' 44.0" S 57° 02' 00.0" W Station
Name ID: 111377 Place ID: 13955

rising to 165m SW of the SwAE station on Snow Hill Island, was surveyed by SwAE in 1902 and named Stations Nunatak (Nordenskjöld, 1911b, Karte 3). Stellen Nunataks [=station nunataks], Snow Hillnunatak, apparently also referring to this feature (Nordenskjöld, 1911b, p.98, 156). The nunatak was resurveyed by FIDS from "Hope Bay" in September 1952. Station Nunatak (APC, 1958, p.6; DOS 610 sheet W 64 56, 1961).

Station Nunatak (USA) 64° 23' 00.0" S 57° 03' 00.0" W Station
Name ID: 132114 Place ID: 13955

Isolated ice-free nunatak near the N coast of Snow Hill Island in the James Ross Island group. It rises to 150 m and stands 4.5 mi SW of the E end of the island. First surveyed in 1902 by the SwedAE under Nordenskjold, who so named it because of its proximity to the expedition's winter station.

Showing all 2 place names.

The SCAR Composite Gazetteer is hosted by the Australian Antarctic Data Centre. The information in the footer below pertains to the AADC web site.