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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| Blount Nunatak (GBR) | 83° 16' 00.0" S | 51° 19' 00.0" W | Nunatak |
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Name ID: 107844
Place ID: 1478
rising to c. 1630m in Forrestal Range, Pensacola Mountains, was photographed from the air by USN on 13 January 1956 on a flight from McMurdo Sound to Weddell Sea and back in a P2V Neptune patrol aircraft, and named after Hartford E. Blount, USN, aviator machinist's mate, Squadron VX, ODF 1956 (NGS map, 1957b; USBGN, 1960, p.1; USGS sheet SU 21-25/14, 1969; APC, 1974, p.3). Nunatak Blant (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). The nunatak was rephotographed from the air by USN, 1964-65, and surveyed from the ground on USGS Pensacola Mountains Project, 1965-66 (Huffman and Schmidt, 1966). |
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| Blount Nunatak (USA) | 83° 16' 00.0" S | 51° 19' 00.0" W | Nunatak |
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Name ID: 122645
Place ID: 1478
A prominent nunatak, 1,630 m, standing 3 mi SW of Mount Lechner on the W side of Forrestal Range in the Pensacola Mountains. Discovered and photographed on Jan. 13, 1956 during a USN transcontinental nonstop plane flight from McMurdo Sound to Weddell Sea and return. Named by US-ACAN for Hartford E. Blount, aviation machinists mate with USN Squadron VX during Operation Deep Freeze, 1956. |
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| Mount Murchison (AUS) | 67° 19' 00.1" S | 144° 15' 00.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 1478
Place ID: 9977
A mountain about 567 m above sea level, on the western side of the Mertz Glacier, about 15 km south-west of Buchanan Bay, George V Land. Discovered by AAE (1911-1914) under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it after R. Murchison of Melbourne, a patron of the expedition. |
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