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
Utsteinen (NOR) 71° 57' 18.0" S 23° 20' 30.0" E Nunatak
Name ID: 116269 Place ID: 15254

Mountain in the NW part of Sør-Rondane. U.=the outer stone.

Utsteinen Nunatak (USA) 71° 58' 00.0" S 23° 34' 00.0" E Nunatak
Name ID: 133100 Place ID: 15254

Nunatak standing 4 mi N of Viking Heights and the main group of the Sor Rondane Mountains. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers in 1957 from air photos taken by USN Operation HighJump, 1946-47, and named Utsteinen (the outer stone) because of its position.

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