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 Vesalius (GBR) | 64° 04' 00.0" S | 62° 00' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 111763
Place ID: 15420
rising to 765 m in S Liège Island, Palmer Archipelago, was called descriptively Monte Sur [= south mountain] by AAE (Argentina. MM chart OO, 1954); photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57; in association with the names of pioneers of medicine grouped in this area, named after Andreas Vesalius (1514-64), Flemish anatomist and author of De humani corporis fabrica (1543), a pioneer work on the structure of the human body (APC, 1960, p.8; BA chart 3560, 7.iv.1961; BAS 250 sheet SQ 19-20/4, 1-DOS 1974). Montes Brugmann (Brugmann Mountains, q.v.), referring collectively to this feature and Pavlov Peak (Chile. DHN chart 1501, 1962). |
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| Mount Vesalius (USA) | 64° 04' 00.0" S | 61° 59' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 133212
Place ID: 15420
Mountain, 765 m, standing NW of Macleod Point, Liege Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. Shown on an Argentine government chart of 1950. Named by the UK-APC in 1960 for Vesalius (1514-1564), Flemish anatomist who wrote a pioneer work on the structure of the human body which revolutionized the whole concept of the subject. |
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