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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| Blanchard Ridge (GBR) | 65° 13' 00.0" S | 64° 08' 00.0" W | Ridge |
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Name ID: 107837
Place ID: 1444
rising to 535m, N of Wiggins Glacier, Graham Coast, was roughly mapped by FAE, 1908-10, in 1909 and named Sommet Blanchard, after M. Blanchard, then French Consul at Punta Arenas and a shareholder in the Sociedad Ballenera de Magallanes, which helped the expedition (Charcot, 1910, p.25; 1912, Pl. 4). Blanchard Peak (USHO, 1943, p.139). Cerro Blanchard (Argentina. IGM map, 1946). Blanchard Ridge (USBGN, 1951, p.10; APC, 1959a, p.4; BA chart 3572, 12.viii.1960). Mount Blanchard (USHO, 1956, p.30). The feature was photographed from the air by FIDASE in 1956-57. |
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| Blanchard Ridge (USA) | 65° 12' 00.0" S | 64° 04' 00.0" W | Ridge |
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Name ID: 122619
Place ID: 1444
Rocky ridge, 520 m, at the N side of the mouth of Wiggins Glacier on the W coast of Graham Land. Mapped by the FrAE, 1908-10, and named by Charcot for a Monsieur Blanchard, then French Consul at Punta Arenas. |
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| Mount Ayres (AUS) | 79° 19' 59.9" S | 156° 28' 00.1" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 1444
Place ID: 710
A prominent mountain, 2600 m above sea level, south of the Mulock Glacier nivi, into which it falls away steeply. Discovered by the Darwin Glacier party of the TAE and first climbed in December, 1957, when a survey station was established at its highest point. Named after H.H. Ayres, one of the two men comprising the Darwin Glacier party. |
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