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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| Twin Peaks (RUS) | 63° 24' 00.0" S | 57° 07' 00.0" W | Peak |
| Name ID: 121088 Place ID: 15126 | |||
| Twin Peaks (GBR) | 63° 24' 00.0" S | 57° 07' 00.0" W | Peak |
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Name ID: 111695
Place ID: 15126
rising to 730 m and 750 m on W side of Arena Glacier, Trinity Peninsula, were sighted by SwAE in 1902; surveyed by FIDS from "Hope Bay" in 1945 and named descriptively (APC, 1955, p.21; DOS 310 Hope Bay sheet, 1961); further surveyed by FIDS in January 1955. Cerro Cuerno [=horn hill], so called descriptively (Olsacher and others, 1956, p.86). |
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| Twin Peaks (USA) | 63° 24' 00.0" S | 57° 07' 00.0" W | Peak |
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Name ID: 133012
Place ID: 15126
Two sharply defined peaks, 750 m, standing together 1.5 mi N of Mount Taylor and 2 mi W of the head of Hope Bay at the NE end of Antarctic Peninsula. Discovered by the SwedAE, 1901-04, under Nordenskjold. Named by the FIDS following their survey of the area in 1946. |
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