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
Bond Nunatak (GBR) 67° 09' 00.0" S 68° 10' 00.0" W Nunatak
Name ID: 107864 Place ID: 1561

rising to c. 1200m in central Adelaide Island, was surveyed by FIDS from Adelaide in 1961-62; named after Flt Lieut. Peter Robert Bond, RAF (b.1933), pilot with BAS Aviation Unit, based at Adelaide, summer 1962-63 (APC, 1964, p.2; BAS 250P sheet SQ 19-20/14 (Ext.), 1-DOS 1978).

Bond Nunatak (USA) 67° 09' 00.0" S 68° 10' 00.0" W Nunatak
Name ID: 122699 Place ID: 1561

Snow-capped nunatak with rock exposures on its W face, rising N of Mount Bouvier on Adelaide Island. Named by the UK-APC in 1963 for Flight Lt. Peter R. Bond, RAF, pilot with the BAS Aviation Unit based at Adelaide station in 1962-63.

Mount Steele (AUS) 69° 49' 59.9" S 159° 40' 59.9" E Mountain
Name ID: 1561 Place ID: 13967

A mountain about 5.6 km north of Mount Ellery in Oates Land. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named after C.D. Steele who participated in US Operations Deepfreeze III, IV, 61-68 at McMurdo station.

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