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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| Blériot Glacier (GBR) | 64° 26' 00.0" S | 61° 08' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 107839
Place ID: 1454
flowing N into Hughes Bay, Danco Coast, was photographed from the air by FIDASE in 1956-57 and surveyed from the ground by FIDS from "Portal Point", 1957-59; in association with the names of pioneers of aviation grouped in this area, named after Louis Blériot (1872-1936), French aviator who flew the first full-size powered monoplane in 1907, and made the first flight across the English Channel, from Calais to Dover, 25 July 1909 (APC, 1960, p.3; BA chart 3566, 25.viii.1961). |
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| Blériot Glacier (USA) | 64° 25' 00.0" S | 61° 10' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 122626
Place ID: 1454
Short, but wide, glacier lying E of Salvesen Cove on the W coast of Graham Land. Photographed by the FIDASE in 1956-57, and mapped from these photos by the FIDS. Named by the UK-APC in 1960 for Louis Bleriot (1872-1936), French aviator who in 1907 flew the first full-size powered monoplane and made the first flight across the English Channel in July 1909. |
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| Mount Béchervaise (AUS) | 70° 11' 39.1" S | 64° 48' 11.1" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 1454
Place ID: 1078
A great massif of brown rock in the Athos Range, Prince Charles Mountains, rising sheer from the plateau ice on the northern face, with steep slopes on the other sides. It is bare, except for an ice cap on the flat summit area. It is 2362 m above sea level. First visited in November, 1955, by an ANARE party led by John M Béchervaise, Officer-in-Charge Mawson in 1955, after whom it was named. |
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