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 Thornton (GBR) | 73° 34' 00.0" S | 77° 07' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 111575
Place ID: 14652
one of the Snow Nunataks (q.v.), rising to c. 700 m S of Carroll Inlet, English Coast, was named after Capt. Richard Thornton, commanding USNS Eltanin on Antarctic cruises, 1967-68 (USGS sketch map Bryan Coast-Ellsworth Land, 1968; APC, 1975, p.5). |
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| Mount Thornton (USA) | 73° 34' 00.0" S | 77° 07' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 132666
Place ID: 14652
A mountain between Mount McCann and Mount Benkert in the east-central part of the Snow Nunataks, Ellsworth Land. Discovered and photographed by the USAS 1939-41. Named by US-ACAN for Capt. Richard Thornton, commander of USNS Eltanin on Antarctic cruises, 1967-68. |
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