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 Viets (RUS) 78° 14' 00.0" S 86° 14' 00.0" W Mountain
Name ID: 121212 Place ID: 15501

Mount Viets (USA) 78° 14' 00.0" S 86° 14' 00.0" W Mountain
Name ID: 133262 Place ID: 15501

A sharp pyramidal mountain over 3,600 m, standing 2 mi N of Mount Giovinetto in the main ridge of the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains. Discovered by the Marie Byrd Land Traverse party, 1957-58, under C.R. Bentley, and named for Ronald L. Viets, geophysicist at Little America V Station in 1957.

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