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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| Tufts Pass (GBR) | 69° 28' 00.0" S | 70° 46' 00.0" W | Pass |
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Name ID: 111673
Place ID: 15037
at c.1100 m running E-W between Rouen Mountains and Elgar Uplands, N Alexander Island, and connecting Hampton Glacier to Nichols Snowfield, was |
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| Tufts Pass (USA) | 69° 25' 00.0" S | 70° 35' 00.0" W | Pass |
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Name ID: 132941
Place ID: 15037
Pass extending in an E-W direction between Rouen Mountains and Elgar Uplands in the N part of Alexander Island. First seen from the air and roughly mapped by the BGLE in 1937. Remapped from air photos taken by the RARE, 1947-48, by Searle of the FIDS in 1960. Named by the RARE for Tufts University, Medford, MA, where Dr. Robert Nichols was head of the geology department before joining the RARE. |
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