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 Boennighausen (USA) | 75° 47' 00.0" S | 132° 18' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 122670
Place ID: 1513
Snow-covered mountain (2,970 m) located 4 mi SSW of Mount Kosciusko in the Ames Range of Marie Byrd Land. Mapped by USGS from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1959-65. Named by US-ACAN for Lt. Cdr. Thomas L. Boennighausen, CEC, USN, Officer-in-Charge of the nuclear power plant at McMurdo Station, 1966. He served as Civil Engineer on the staff of the Commander, U.S. Naval Support Force, Antarctica, 1969-70 and 1970-71. |
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| Mount Cartledge (AUS) | 70° 17' 02.0" S | 65° 41' 41.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 1513
Place ID: 2369
A mountain just east of Mount Albion in the Athos Range, Prince Charles Mountains. Plotted from ANARE air photographs. Named after W J Cartledge, plumber at Wilkes in 1962, carpenter at Mawson in 1966. |
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