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
Mount Van Pelt (USA) 71° 15' 00.0" S 35° 43' 00.0" E Mountain
Name ID: 133134 Place ID: 15305

A steep, bare rock mountain (2,000 m) next east of Mount DeBreuck in the northern part of the Queen Fabiola Mountains. Discovered on Oct. 7, 1960 by the BelgAE under Guido Derom. Named by Derom for Guy Van Pelt, radio operator on Belgian aircraft during reconnoitering flights in this area in 1960.

Van Pelt, Mont (BEL) 71° 15' 00.0" S 35° 43' 00.0" E Mountain
Name ID: 104989 Place ID: 15305

Guy Van Pelt était l'opérateur radio pendant le vol de découverte des Monts Reine Fabiola.

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