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 Van Valkenburg (USA) | 77° 19' 00.0" S | 142° 06' 00.0" W | Mountain |
Name ID: 133137
Place ID: 15308
Mountain, 1,165 m, standing 1 mi S of Mount Burnham in the Clark Mountains of the Ford Ranges, Marie Byrd Land. Discovered on aerial flights from West Base of the USAS (1939-41) and named for Prof. Samuel Van Valkenburg, Director of the School of Geography at Clark University. |
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