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 Ajax (NZL) | 71° 48' 00.0" S | 168° 27' 00.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 112614
Place ID: 141
A mountain (3,770 m) rising 1 mi WSW of Mount Royalist in the Admiralty Mountains. Named by the NZGSAE, 1957-58, after HMNZS Ajax. The mountain is one of several in this area named for New Zealand ships. |
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| Mount Ajax (USA) | 71° 48' 00.0" S | 168° 27' 00.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 121641
Place ID: 141
A mountain (3,770 m) rising 1 mi WSW of Mount Royalist in the Admiralty Mountains. Named by the NZGSAE, 1957-58, after HMNZS Ajax. The mountain is one of several in this area named for New Zealand ships. |
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| Stefansson Bay (AUS) | 67° 19' 59.9" S | 59° 10' 00.1" E | Bay |
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Name ID: 141
Place ID: 13977
A bay on the coast of Kemp Land between Law Promontory and Fold Island. Sir Douglas Mawson, BANZARE, applied the name to a sweep of the coast west of Cape Wilkins. Exploration by the William Scoresby Expedition (1936) and the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) defined this section of the coast more accurately. |
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