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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| Vernier Valley (NZL) | 77° 58' 00.0" S | 161° 09' 00.0" E | Valley |
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Name ID: 114647
Place ID: 15413
An ice-free valley on the E side of Mount Blackwelder in the NE part of Wilkniss Mountains, Victoria Land. The name is one of a group in the area associated with surveying applied in 1993 by NZGB; vernier being a graduated scale used on measuring instruments to allow the reading of finer subdivisions. |
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| Vernier Valley (USA) | 77° 58' 00.0" S | 161° 09' 00.0" E | Valley |
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Name ID: 133207
Place ID: 15413
An ice-free valley on the E side of Mount Blackwelder in the NE part of Wilkniss Mountains, Victoria Land. The name is one of a group in the area associated with surveying applied in 1993 by NZGB; vernier being a graduated scale used on measuring instruments to allow the reading of finer subdivisions. |
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