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
Svarthausen (RUS) 69° 52' 00.0" S 74° 28' 00.0" E Nunatak
Name ID: 120857 Place ID: 14283

Svarthausen Nunatak (AUS) 69° 51' 33.8" S 74° 26' 51.0" E Nunatak
Name ID: 1714 Place ID: 14283

A dark rock nunatak with a small outlier to the south-west, about 6.5 km SSE of Mount Caroline Mikkelsen on the Ingrid Christensen Coast.Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936) and called Svarthausen (The Black Pate) by Norwegian cartographers.

Svarthausen Nunatak (USA) 69° 49' 00.0" S 74° 30' 00.0" E Nunatak
Name ID: 132377 Place ID: 14283

A jagged, dark rock nunatak with a small outlier to the SW, lying on the W side of Polar Times Glacier, about 4 mi SSE of Mount Caroline Mikkelsen. Mapped from air photographs by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936-37, and named Svarthausen (the black crag).

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