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 Bonaparte (NZL) 83° 05' 00.0" S 160° 50' 00.0" E Mountain
Name ID: 112830 Place ID: 1559

Northernmost of three summits lying about 45 miles inland from the west side of the Ross Ice Shelf in the Queen Alexandra Range and about 18 miles south-south-east of Mt Markham in Victoria Land. Discovered and named by the BAE, 1907-09, for Prince Roland Bonaparte, who was President of the Société Géographic de Paris.

Mount Bonaparte (USA) 83° 05' 00.0" S 160° 50' 00.0" E Mountain
Name ID: 122697 Place ID: 1559

A mountain, 3,430 m, standing 4 mi NW of Mount Lecointe in the Queen Elizabeth Range. Discovered by the BrAE (1907-09) under Shackleton, and named for Prince Roland Bonaparte, President of the Geographical Society of Paris.

Mount Theaker (AUS) 70° 18' 00.0" S 159° 37' 59.9" E Mountain
Name ID: 1559 Place ID: 14589

A mountain about 31.5 km SSE of Mount Gorton in Oates Land. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named after P.R. Theaker, USARP biologist at McMurdo station in the summer of 1967-68.

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