Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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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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| Black Thumb (GBR) | 68° 25' 00.0" S | 66° 53' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 107824
Place ID: 1407
rising to 1190m at head of Rymill Bay, Fallières Coast, was mapped by BGLE in 1936-37 and named descriptively Black Thumb Mountain (Rymill, 1938a, map facing p.432; BA chart 3196, 12.xi.1948; APC, 1955, p.5; DCS 601 sheet 68 66, 1955). Monte Pulgar Negro [translation of English name] (Chile. DNH chart LIII, 1947; Pierrou, 1970, p.607; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.232). The feature was remapped by FIDS from "Stonington Island", 1948-49. Monte Black Thumb (Argentina. MM chart 109, 1949). The Black Thumb (Butson, 1949, p.202). Black Thumb-fjellet (Rønne, 1950b, p.42). Black Thumb (Adie, 1954, p.4; APC, 1960, p.3; BA chart 3571, 14.vii.1961). Gora Blek-Tam (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). Cerro Pulgar Negro (Argentina. MD, 1978, letter P). |
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| Black Thumb (USA) | 68° 25' 00.0" S | 66° 53' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 122586
Place ID: 1407
Mountain, 1,190 m, with notched and precipitous sides, standing between Romulus Glacier and Bertrand Ice Piedmont on the W coast of Graham Land. Charted and named by the BGLE under Rymill, 1934-37. |
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| Black Thumb Mountain (RUS) | 68° 25' 00.0" S | 66° 53' 00.0" W | Mountain |
| Name ID: 117113 Place ID: 1407 | |||
| Mount Griffiths (AUS) | 66° 28' 15.8" S | 54° 04' 11.2" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 1407
Place ID: 5690
An elongated mountain with several peaks about 19 km ENE of Mount Bennett, Enderby Land. Plotted from air photographs taken by ANARE in 1956, 1957 and 1960. Named after G.S. Griffiths, a member of the Australian Antarctic Expedition Committee of 1886. |
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| Pulgar Negro, Cerro (CHL) | 68° 25' 00.0" S | 66° 54' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 106127
Place ID: 1407
Cartografiado por la BGLE al mando de John Rymill, que le dio el nombre descriptivo Black Thumb Mountain, que traducido al castellano resulta en Monte Pulgar Negro. Monte de laderas acantiladas de 1.208 metros de elevación, que se levanta aproximadamente 5 millas al SE del morro Roca Roja, al centro de la costa oriental de la bahía Rymill, en la costa W de la península de Tierra de O'Higgins. |
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