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
Tierney Peninsula (RUS) 72° 20' 00.0" S 96° 05' 00.0" W Peninsula
Name ID: 120976 Place ID: 14703

Tierney Peninsula (USA) 72° 23' 00.0" S 95° 46' 00.0" W Peninsula
Name ID: 132701 Place ID: 14703

An ice-covered peninsula about 14 mi long, between Savage Glacier and Morgan Inlet in the E end of Thurston Island. Discovered on helicopter flights from the USS Burton Island and Glacier of the USN Bellingshausen Sea Expedition in February 1960. Named by US-ACAN for J.Q. Tierney, oceanographer aboard the Burton Island on this expedition.

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