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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| Tent Peak (NZL) | 77° 30' 00.0" S | 168° 58' 00.0" E | Peak |
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Name ID: 114522
Place ID: 14530
A peak, 1500m high which was occupied as an astronomical station during the NZGSAE, 1958-59. It lies midway between Cape Crozier and Mt Terror on the slopes leading up to Mt Terror. The name was proposed by the expeditoin because of the resemblance of the feature to a tent and also because their tent site of 5 January 1959 was just below it. |
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| Tent Peak (USA) | 77° 30' 00.0" S | 168° 58' 00.0" E | Peak |
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Name ID: 132560
Place ID: 14530
A tent-shaped peak rising to c. 1,570 m midway between Mount Terror and Cape Crozier in eastern Ross Island. Descriptively named by a party of the NZGSAE, 1958-59, which occupied the peak as an astronomical control station, Jan. 5, 1959, and erected a tent below the peak. |
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