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
Vystrel Mountain (USA) 71° 37' 00.0" S 15° 04' 00.0" E Mountain
Name ID: 133335 Place ID: 15620

Partly snow-covered mountain, 1,995 m, standing 1 mi S of Mount Rukhin at the S end of the Lomonosov Mountains in Queen Maud Land. Discovered and first plotted from air photos by GerAE, 1938-39. Mapped from air photos by NorAE, 1958-59; remapped by SovAE, 1960-61, and named Gora Vystrel (shot mountain).

Vystrel, gora (RUS) 71° 35' 00.0" S 15° 10' 00.0" E Mountain
Name ID: 121271 Place ID: 15620

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